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"Laws should not be rigid or fixed. Instead, they should be flexible enough to take account of various circumstances, times, and places."
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Life exists in this universe because certain things work on a certain predefined criteria. And its not just life, each and everything even if it is completely haphazard, it has got some sort of uniformity and wherever there is uniformity there is a law. To live in this complicated world man too has designed laws which governs its society. When a law comes into existense it comprises of numerous opinions, surveys and constraints. Then it goes through hours of debate and after giving ample amount of thought and consideration a LAW is passed. There always have been a debate whether laws should be fixed or rigid. Starting from a classroom when 2 kids are caught fighting and both of them are punished as per the school laws, to a Courtroom when a criminal is sentenced to death; people have always debated about the other face of the coin.
ReplyDeleteFixed laws make people follow the rules no matter what. For instance there is a man who happens to reach an accident site where a car has crashed against a tree, the driver is unconscious, still the car is in good shape. This man who has only driven a tractor in his whole life decides to drive the car and take this person to a hospital, and unfortunately he doesnt have a license. Now if we go by fixed law this man even when he committed this fault for a nobel cause should be charged for breaking the rule of driving without a drivers license. However the circumstances needs to be considered in this case and most probably, only because the people who are judging him are human, he will be treated as an innocent. This was an idle case with clear reasons for the fault committed and hence it was easy for anyone to judge him. But this is not the case always, sometimes even when the situation is pretty clear, because of various pressure, constraints and becasue he is bound to follow the LAW, a judge is not able to give a proper judgement.
These are situations which calls for flexible laws. A law which would consider each and every aspect of a particular case and then comes to a suitable judgement. When a law is made, people who are responsible for it, try to comprise all the imaginable cases which might get effected by it. And finally after giving lot of thought its passed with several clauses, explaining different judgement for differnet cases. Any more flexibility to that law might make it ineffective which is also not good. Still sometimes wrong judgements are passed, which is not because there is a fault in law, but because the people who were unable to execute it properly. It might be one of the most severe crime to hit the president of a country, but what if his or her little baby who is just 3 years old, gives a slap to the president in public. There is noway that kid could be charged for a crime. A law by itself is flexible, considering various circumstances time and place. And according to me there is no need for a law to be more flexible rather it needs to be executed with proper consideration.
A law, in general is made for the society we live in. Laws and regulations are made so as to ensure security and safety of the society. A mixture of such laws apply for each and every person in and around this society as to keep their ill-willed and unfavorable intentions at bay. Some of these laws being rigid may not go well with every individual person being individual perspective. This in turn can provoke some of them to go against these laws and harm other people which may disturb the peace and health of society. But if these laws are made more flexible it would bring an adverse effect on the society.
ReplyDeleteSomehow, I tend to disagree with the thought of laws being made more flexble as being very unbalanced and biased.There has been a drastic change in technology today which comes with a positive image in our mind. But, as technology progressess things step on getting bigger making it vulnerable to its bad use. As said, Every thing that comes into existence comes with good and evil use going hand in hand. For example being in computer field, consider a computer system which is prone to virus attacks or attack by some potential user. If firewall and other security wouldn't have been in place, the secret and confidential data wouldn't have been confidential anymore. Thinking of a more broader example, when thought of a gun being allowed for a common man, it would make it hard for a common man to make a living out of fear and insecurity. A ban on smoking in public places seems very thoughtful for the non-smokers but on the other hand it seems more rigid to the smokers who do not get freedom to do so. To the smokers its just a passion or satisfaction but for non-smokers its about health which purely means safety. What if a driver is allowed to drink and drive? We still have a star celebrity taking rounds of legal actions for doing so as he was a culprit for violating this law and ending up killing 2 or more people by driving over them when drunk. Here too passion and satisfaction do not meet the limitations of safety. You cannot kill animals for purpose of pleasure especially the animals which are facing extiction.
Being indulgent towards traffic laws would mean greater number of accidents which may in turn lead to fatal results. I have seen many people taking the traffic laws less serious and ending up in hospitals. By making these laws flexible would mean increase in hospitals and doctors for sure.We have seen when security failed its measures it had to pay heavy. The terrorist attack on WTC on 9/11 and Mumbai on 26/11 are examples. The terrorists trespassed quite easily and destroyed everything where the only sufferers were common people.
People would start behaving irresponsible if laws made flexible. When people dare to make statements like 'Laws are made to be broken', it means how ill behaved they may act towards laws being made flexible. The laws may be very strict or rigid for common man in person but when it comes to bigger and larger picture say for society, state or country it has to be unbiased. Thus, it is very necessary for all individuals to follow the rules strictly for their own safety and security. The laws should always be unbiased, conducive and for goodwill rather than flexible.