2007-01-04 09:19:02 · 15 answers · asked by annalise g 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Laws are important in a society as a means to keep people in a somewhat semi-controlled enviornment. to keep things uniform in a huge society. Ultimatly,(it will never happen this way,but) if everyone were following all the laws at all times, then everyone is being safe and controlled. On the other side of that, if everyone were following all of the laws all of the time, then there would be a lot of people without jobs and careers in the police force, correctional facilities, court systems, and lawyers, attornies, bail bondsmen, and so on and so forth on down the line, so in conclusion: Laws are set in place so that society has guidelines that they have to abide by, as a means to control the disorderly, and are used as a means to determine justified punishments for those people that break those laws. Are all of those laws necessary? that is debatable from every angle. thats just how I see it...
2007-01-04 09:34:00 · answer #1 · answered by checkerscott 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because through laws evrybody has an idea what is the others next step, gives some borders of action. Without laws you have to have extremely intelligent, educated and well behaved people to star a society. This is why anarchists claim they are better than everybody else (although they didn´t prove it yet).
2007-01-04 17:27:03 · answer #2 · answered by itifonhom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not the only person in this society. If it was just me, I could do whatever I wanted. But there are a lot of people. Laws are the collective rules that we, as members of society, agree to live by. Not only for maintaining order, but for peace of mind.
2007-01-04 17:35:25 · answer #3 · answered by grrandram 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is all linked to the social contract between us the citizens and the state. The state agrees to protect the citizen and we agree to pay taxes. (Jean Jacques Rosseau coined this term)
If there was no rule of law, then we would be lining in a "state of nature" (a phrases coined by Thomas Hobbes)
2007-01-04 17:34:23 · answer #4 · answered by Pink_Watch 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
without them there would be total anarchy. Government and laws are necessary evils. W/o laws anybody could take their venegence out on anybody, including innocent people, which in turn would lead to somebody probably doing the same thing and the ugly cycle would repeat itself.
2007-01-04 17:26:01 · answer #5 · answered by nutinholdsmedown 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Koz udderwize peeple like me kud get away wiv wot we like
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2007-01-04 19:16:27 · answer #6 · answered by Vinny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Their importance lies, in theory, in providing a code of conduct that is supposed to be for the common good - but, in practice, they're not always enforced, policed, noticed or are easily accessible or understood by the general public to whom they often apply.
2007-01-04 17:44:50 · answer #7 · answered by ♥Robin♥ (Scot,UK) 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there would be total chaos people would just be raping and pilaging if not for the police this is the reality we would live in .
but the authority can be manipulated and all throughout history has been proven , we are at the point in history where people are gonna be in for big shocks again just like the germans were when WW2 happened it snuck up on them as well .
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2007-01-04 17:29:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The answer seems obvious; to keep order and thus protect the people from harming each other.
2007-01-04 18:51:18 · answer #9 · answered by Tuppence 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cuz w\ out it da world wud b a freakin mess n scarier place than it alredy is . evr1 wud do smthing wrong probly even u n i !
2007-01-04 17:28:23 · answer #10 · answered by Bri-anna 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋