Claim: Many problems of modern society cannot be solved by laws and the legal system.
Reason: Laws cannot change what is in people's hearts or minds.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
Laws are established to sustain people, order, and safety in society. Without rules and the legal system, the community will be chaotic and destructive, full of immoral behaviors and crimes. The author claims that most of the problems of modern society cannot be resolved by laws and the legal system because laws cannot alter people's thoughts and minds. However, this is not always the case. While I agree that laws and the legal system cannot solve many problems, I disagree with the reason mentioned above.
Granted, laws and the legal system can solve a few problems. As regulations provide a guideline to the public, people can abstain from conducting illicit actions, which ensures fewer ethical problems in our society. When slavery was pervasive, people's resistance and movements to outlaw slavery were not effective. However, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation to declare the freedom of all enslaved people in the Confederate States of America. Later, the 13th amendment in the United States Constitution officially abolished slavery in America. In these cases, ethical and racial discrimination issues have decreased. Thus, laws and the legal system can fix several moral problems.
However, laws and the legal system cannot wholly eradicate many societal problems. Because many issues are complex and have arisen for a long time, it is impossible to resolve most of the issues by law. With the advent of the rapid development of computers and the internet in modern society, people from different walks of life and backgrounds can readily access the same information. People spend enormous time surfing the internet these days, so many have become the victims of anonymous defamation, libel, and slander. Nevertheless, such problems cannot be legislated by the legal system. Although laws are enacted and punish people who infringe upon laws, it does not ensure that these people will not commit offenses again. Still, many people disregard the legal system and violate laws despite harsh punishments. Therefore, the author's claim that laws can solve most societal problems is reasonable.
Although laws cannot resolve many problems occurred in society, laws can still reduce issues and minimize the harmful effects. Thus, rules can alter people's hearts and motivation. Take Enron Scandal, for example. The American energy corporation, Enron, and an accounting company, Arthur Anderson, used accounting loopholes and poor financial reports and contrived to hide Enron's billions in debt from the previous failed projects. Once their defrauding was revealed, several executives at Enron were sentenced to prison, and Arthur Anderson lost their license to audit and eventually closed the firm. In addition, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was implemented to increase penalties for fabricating, destroying, and altering finical records. Even though this law cannot completely solve the further problems, people in the future would hesitate to commit further similar violations.
In conclusion, many problems of modern society cannot be entirely solved by laws; however, stating that the rules cannot change people's minds undermines the authority of the legal system. At worst, people would be able to consider the negative results of their illegal actions, and at best, people will restrain from such behaviors. Both cases will guarantee a decrease in crime rates in our modern society.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, nevertheless, so, still, therefore, thus, while, for example, in addition, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 12.4196629213 177% => OK
Conjunction : 27.0 14.8657303371 182% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 33.0505617978 57% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 58.6224719101 94% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2889.0 2235.4752809 129% => OK
No of words: 526.0 442.535393258 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.49239543726 5.05705443957 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78901763229 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62871664959 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 277.0 215.323595506 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.526615969582 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 904.5 704.065955056 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.1346941032 60.3974514979 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.3 118.986275619 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5333333333 23.4991977007 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.36666666667 5.21951772744 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 19.0 5.13820224719 370% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.380802384183 0.243740707755 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0999664192011 0.0831039109588 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.106664984256 0.0758088955206 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.228652164557 0.150359130593 152% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.110221681441 0.0667264976115 165% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.1392134831 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.27 12.1639044944 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.76 8.38706741573 116% => OK
difficult_words: 176.0 100.480337079 175% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.8971910112 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.