Thursday, September 11, 2008
What If There Were No Laws?
This is a question that popped into my head last class (Wednesday), although I'm sure it has crossed my mind before. I believe we were discussing whether people are born with a clean slate, innately 'good' or innately 'bad'. Someone (in the class) came up with the notion that it is because of the laws of society that people behave the way they do. What I don't understand or comprehend or not know that I don't know is what about before the word 'law'? Before language? Before 'good' and 'bad'? And why is 'good' and 'bad' the way that it is? Who comes up with the word for it, decides what defines it and what can be categorized under it? Is it society? Why is it 'bad' to not be 'good'. Ooh, I'm losing my point. So, what if there were no laws? I know, well I don't know, but I think many people do think about this question. The world may wreak havoc and possibly destroy itself, because people do like to have some structure in their life. And if there were any future generations they could become innately bad. Or, possibly, because no one can say for sure, because laws are something that we as humans do not like to follow or like to break, the freeness of not having them would provide for an open environment, where people could just be.
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I believe that if there were no laws, there would be more even more chaos in everyday society. Just think if there no traffic lights; there would be more accidents. So the main reason why we have laws in the first place is to set limits for the sake of safety for life and property. In everyday life, we should not have to worry about being shot at or run over by a car, or whether our home will still be there when we return. But things have and do happen, which is why we have laws to set limits and give the proper punishment or consequences for the action(s). I think that a lot of it comes from learning about what can happen if limits aren't set. One example might minimizing fire hazards, or maintaining a safety zone by closing off an unsafe area. Even though people don't always think beforehand, they never like it when something happens to them.
Way too many times have I come across someone who has no regard for someone's personal space, comfort zone, property, etc., and then something happens; an object or device is broken, or someone ends up injured all because another person had no regard for that person in the first place. I think that is why some people might wish to file charges in order to teach that person a lesson. Forgiveness, itself, is not enough when someone half-intentionally causes harm to another person, due to lack of respect.
So, this is why laws are necessary, no matter how obscure some of them might be. I think that it is so excessive actions and behaviors that impose on the rights of others can be deterred or minimized. Unfortunately, there are people who will always push the limits and not give a damn who they hurt.
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