Would it be possible for Humans to live without man made law?

Question

I am not asking if it would be preferable, just if it would be possible for humans as we are to live without man made laws.

Answer 1

Animals use laws as well. If one animal enter the territory of an other, then the offender must face the consequences of his action. Just like we do. The difference is, that we live in a more complicated society, so we have more complicated laws.

If there would be a common change in people's mind, it could be possible to live without laws. But there isn't. It is possible though, ... but only on low numbers.

Because no laws, no bounds. The population of the world would become only 2% of its original within weeks. After that, life would be possible even without laws.

Answer 2

Imagine a situation where by an act of strange powerful magic each person is invested with an ability to do whatever he, or she, may wish to do within human capacity. If this happens then what would follow? Nothing would happen that has not been happening already, as this is how things already are. We are limited, restricted and hindered from living out the best of our ambitions and desires only because of the presence of other people around against who our own purposes cross, or consolidate. The situation is boiled down to a balance where there are multiple vested interests in things we have common giving way tot competition and tussles of various types.

The fact about human life is that each human being is born as an individual quite ignorant of the fact that there are other people who he or she has to share life with. If a child would be allowed to grow up entirely on his own he would never learn to share and have any ethical or moral sense at all. We do not need laws when we are alone, but when we are more than two there are humanly naturally moral and ethical issue and laws are there to encode them, to make sure that no one encroaches upon another person.

The mere presence of human ethical and moral sense is not sufficient for the creation of a better human society. These things alongside people rights and their values need to be identified, recognised, and legislated into convenient applicable forms.

Answer 3

The human organism lived without a civil or social law until they developed intellect far enough to 'think' that they were separate from nature an no longer needed to consider the natural law already existing in them. 'man made' is just that, made by mankind or synthetic. It is only a cold and dead copy of the living natural way. Mankind's synthetic code is unnecessary and destructive to the human organism as it imposes unrealistic and fabricated 'morale' ideas based on individual societies. These 'moral' ideas do not exist naturally in the universe and are therefore completely foreign, intrusive and detestable to the organism in the same way a foreign object introduced into the body itself would be.

Answer 4

I don't see how a future could be in balance without any law in place, there has always been law in one form or another. I believe the use of law has become too adhering, too controlling, and made by people who they themselves have no need they feel to follow. They do what they don't want you to do. I believe we should have a balanced law base, which if everyone must follow, then no one individual will be above it. We are advanced enough today to have such a balanced system. If we didn't have congress, we could progress. Our original government, the way it was written entailed the power of the people to uphold, not rulership over one another, to govern, not to rule. We would have to eliminate money and go back to trade items. We would have to tend to many things ourself, if you want roads still in your area, you'd have to get out there and pour the blacktop too. You'd have some that just didn't want to, then you'd have to enact a law see?

Answer 5

Humans existed before the concept of law and in my opinion can live without the contrived notion of law. Some philosophers would argue the existence of something called natural law (see Lock and Kant) which claims that rules for governing life exist as a state of nature and therefore are not contrived but preexisting. Many ( including myself) don't agree with the concept of natural law, but its something to think about when contemplating the state of human sovereignty

Answer 6

There are two answers but only one is correct. The theoretical answer I think you are seeking is yes, God's laws. The practical answer is yes but it requires consensus and God's law will never make it to consensus.

The practical answer demands that we all view reality from the same perspective and there is only one perspective consistent with everyone's interests. It is that you and everything else in existence is made of value. The material and spiritual perspectives are both incorrect perspectives because neither satisfies us completely. That one is value jiggles our minds with unforetold excitement and a lifelong sense of meaning.

There is nothing meaningful that is not explained by this perspective and being a single perspective it is free of competing theories and thus free of contradictions. For this reason it enables us to discover the principles of our existence. What are principles? Universal guides for thought and resultant actions.

Principles work is all situations anywhere in the universe without contradiction. These principles are non-contradiction, honesty and respect. Respect is the arbiter of human relationships. This could be taught in our school systems but ignorance and resulting fears prevent it.

Answer 7

Yes, it would be possible for humans to live without man made law, it has been done! In the past humans only lived by natures law, survival of the fitest! Just as animals live in the wild now so did man at one time!! Mankind had no laws, as we understand laws today! primitive man lived by natures laws, the law of survival!!

Answer 8

It would, if you believe in Nietzsche's ubermensch (which translates as "overman", and not "superman"). The ubermensch is essentially a person who lives beyond human laws and morality, with the proviso that he takes on the responsibility for the rest of the world's moral culpability. Obviously (and notoriously), Hitler took up Nietzsche's philosophy and mangled it effectively enough to use it, but there's no evidence that Nietzsche himself would have bought into it-quite the opposite in fact.

There is another aspect to this: Theodor Adorno claimed that a return to a purely mimetic, natural existence was impossible for modern people, and was in fact the absolute fear of civilisation. That dispenses with the notion that we'd become animals again, I think.

Answer 9

No, the fear of laws is what keep most people honest.

One good recent example of this is in New Orleans just after Katrina hit and no one was present to enforce the laws. The area was in complete chaos and brutal actions were rampart.

Answer 10

We would live but life as we know it would reduce back to animalistic stages. We would immediately resolved disputes through violence and war would run rampart around the world. Technology would suffer, disease would run prevalent, and thus the better adapted animals in the world would begun preying on humans. No I do not believe Humans would be able to survive without law.