The author claims that legislation cannot affect a change in the opinions and attitude of people and laws are not the panacea to all ills that plague our society today. While I concur with the author when he opines that laws cannot be the solution for all problems, I disagree with the statement that laws cannot effect a change in people’s attitudes and beliefs and propose that given sufficient time laws have the ability to change the ethos of a society.
Laws are only structural guidelines that delineate behavior and guarantee people their freedom while ensuring that the rights and freedoms of others are not encroached upon. In absence of legislation, we would be ruled by a state of anarchy and chaos with each individual plundering and pulverizing at will and the law of the jungle where the mighty thrive and the weaker perish, would be true for the human race as well. However while laws provide a framework within which to operate, by themselves they do not guarantee an equitable and just society. Laws need to be supported by a substantial deterrence for people to take them seriously. They also require ardent supporters who would act like harbingers of change and propel others to adopt them as well. However all these still believe that human behavior can be predicted and thus controlled. In truth, human behavior is as much rational as irrational, as thought-out as impulsive and as cognitive as emotional. The fact, that human behavior cannot be restricted is evidenced from middle eastern countries where severe laws and corporeal punishments are also incapable of casting human behavior into a mold.
Laws, over a sufficient period of time can however engineer a social change. The initial indifference metamorphoses over a length of time into acceptable behavior and deviations are viewed as social stigmas which replace enforcement as the deterrence to aberrant behavior. From abolition of slavery in the US, to stigmatization of the sati practice in India, laws have seeped into the social conscience of nations with a majority of denizens accepting them as part of their moral conduct.
Laws have managed to reform not only how people behave but also how they think. Laws governing science have transformed how people view their world an from an almost exclusively religious outlook of the functions of nature, an objective and scientific rationale of phenomena is considered. The universal law of gravitation for instance has given an objective grounding and changed the way we cogitate.
In summary, laws have both the power to transform behavior and thinking. Laws, though, do not work in silos and strong mechanisms both promoting desired behavior and curtailing undesired behavior need to be implemented. However a complete of transformation of human behavior is not possible even under the best of legislation and enforcement as the vagaries of human mind cannot be ascertained completely.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: However,
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Suggestion: However,
...nd propel others to adopt them as well. However all these still believe that human beha...
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Message: Did you mean 'belief' (noun) instead of believe (verb)?
Suggestion: belief
...t them as well. However all these still believe that human behavior can be predicted an...
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Suggestion: period
...into a mold. Laws, over a sufficient period of time can however engineer a social change. T...
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Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
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Suggestion: However,
...esired behavior need to be implemented. However a complete of transformation of human b...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, so, still, thus, well, while, for instance, in summary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 14.8657303371 155% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 33.0505617978 82% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 58.6224719101 107% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2463.0 2235.4752809 110% => OK
No of words: 477.0 442.535393258 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16352201258 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67336384929 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84023993575 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 240.0 215.323595506 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.503144654088 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 789.3 704.065955056 112% => 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
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.4799023531 60.3974514979 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.631578947 118.986275619 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.1052631579 23.4991977007 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.42105263158 5.21951772744 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.22035423665 0.243740707755 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0680937586612 0.0831039109588 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0626953698896 0.0758088955206 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.125431296276 0.150359130593 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0905380945938 0.0667264976115 136% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 14.1392134831 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 48.8420337079 77% => It means the essay is relatively harder to read.
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.48 8.38706741573 113% => OK
difficult_words: 139.0 100.480337079 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 11.8971910112 151% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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