2007-01-06 01:43:05 · 6 answers · asked by SG 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
It is a control mechanism, since society has so many variables what is one man's right is another man's wrong. We need laws to protect us from one another. The problem with that is that do so we need police and they are sometimes the biggest offenders of the laws. Because of that and because one man accusing another of something which he may or may not have done within the law resulted in lawyers. Because not all of them are up and up along with the police and all the other law breakers that exist in society we have laws. These of course are broken all the time and some of the time those that break them get caught just like the story of Adam and Eve, there was a law and they broke it. So from that day on, we have laws to guide us, control us and condemn us. There are even laws that prevent us from killing ourselves, others killing us or asking others to kill us. Laws have all of the bases covered except one, and that is that if no one is around to see us break a law and no one can prove that we did break a law, has a law been broken? Does a tree falling in the forest make a sound when it falls if no one is there to hear it? In 10 years time it may be against the law to do something which we are freely doing today, so laws like society change sometimes for the better sometimes for the worse. There are laws on the books now which are never enforced but which one day were, so once a law not always a law theory is in affect all the time.
2007-01-06 02:09:24 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. PDQ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you look to contractualists authors, such as Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, they will point out that to overcome the state of nature (where one only has ownership to what they can keep by his own strenght - Hobbes) and engage in cooperative behavior, they need to abdicate part of their liberty to the State.
Laws are the guaranttee of one´s natural rights (to use the contractualists terms), or at least should be, so by guarding the rights of the people (right to live, to be free, to own stuff, respect of contracts) people wont be paranoic all the time, whether he is going to be killed anytime, whether he can trust in doing bussiness with someone and so on.
2007-01-06 10:02:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
With law there is an illusion of order, without that illusion there would be total chaos.
2007-01-06 09:46:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
law is neccecery to keep order but there is a drawback society tends to not like being controled and we like doing things that we are not allowed to do
2007-01-06 09:49:23 · answer #4 · answered by umaar m 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Unfortunately, people will not behave right unless they are forced to do so. That is what law and law enforcement is all about
2007-01-06 09:53:32 · answer #5 · answered by Gee Wye 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
What kind of assignment is this (length, grade level)? It would help in deciding how much detail I should get into.
2007-01-06 12:02:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋