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.
The main intent of the legal system, in my opinion, is to solve the problems faced by society by instilling in people a sense of fear of a higher authority that needs due deference. The penalty associated with the flouting of rules motivates many to be cognizant in life. But the legal system can only ensure solutions to the problems to a certain extent. I agree with the claim that many problems faced by the society cannot be solved by imposing laws, for the stated reason that laws cannot change what the people think, as well as an additional one. But I do concede that it doesn’t prove true in all the cases.
Firstly, laws are meant to solve the problems such as crime, safety violations, etc. But they impose hefty fines and strict punishments if violated. It simply penalizes and does not change the mindset of people towards the problem. Since there is no change in thinking, there is no guarantee that such a problem won’t be repeated in the future. People are not attached towards eradicating the root cause of the problem from society, they simply want to slide past it without it affecting them much. This ignorance increases the problems even more. For example, the penalty for not wearing a helmet on a bike is a hefty fine. The legal system introduced this penalty so that the riders are safe while riding in the unfortunate case of an accident. But people think of it as an additional unnecessary expense that can be avoided by wearing the helmet, so they wear it without actually understanding why the law was there in the first place.
Secondly, it is human tendency to find workarounds and shortcuts to get out of everything. Imposing laws just pushes them to find loopholes in the system to escape the legal system and go on gallivanting. The success of some anti-societal elements in skipping the system distresses others and triggers a chain reaction of everyone disregarding the laws, leading to a rapid increase in the problem under discussion. Continuing with the previous example of a helmet, the violators would either simply pay a bribe to the traffic personnel to relieve them of the fine, or they would carry the helmet in their hands and wear it only before a traffic checkpoint, and remove afterwards. This practice of not wearing the helmet has proven fatal to many riders on the road, but even with increased fines, people do not heed the established law.
However, I concede that this does not hold true in some cases. In cases where the penalty is capital punishment, the legal system has mostly eradicated some of the serious problems, but obviously not completely. In these cases, people understand the intent of legal system behind introducing such a heavy punishment. For example, serious offences such as terrorism and homicide have reduced in the countries with strict legal systems. A change of mind and heart is very difficult while dealing with people having such criminal minds, in these cases legal system is the only way to solve these problems.
In conclusion, the claim that many modern society problems cannot be solved by the legal system for the stated reason that laws don’t change the heart and mind of people is justified. Additionally, since finding loopholes in the legal system is easier, the problems go farther away from being solved. Only a handful of problems involving very serious consequences can be solved by the legal system.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 153, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
... the legal system has mostly eradicated some of the serious problems, but obviously not com...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, firstly, however, if, regarding, second, secondly, so, still, well, while, for example, in conclusion, such as, as well as, in my opinion, in some cases, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 33.0505617978 112% => OK
Preposition: 79.0 58.6224719101 135% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2834.0 2235.4752809 127% => OK
No of words: 582.0 442.535393258 132% => OK
Chars per words: 4.86941580756 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.91168771031 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59023339759 2.79657885939 93% => OK
Unique words: 264.0 215.323595506 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.453608247423 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 885.6 704.065955056 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 8.0 1.77640449438 450% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.0336746296 60.3974514979 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.962962963 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5555555556 23.4991977007 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.18518518519 5.21951772744 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 21.0 5.13820224719 409% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.341008019759 0.243740707755 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0914476933855 0.0831039109588 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.114744610761 0.0758088955206 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.219901380286 0.150359130593 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.127937544856 0.0667264976115 192% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.1392134831 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.8420337079 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.1639044944 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.26 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 100.480337079 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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