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 statement raises a variety of issues about laws. One school of thought postulates that laws cannot solve the issues of modern society given the fact that people' s beliefs that drive their actions are not altered by laws. Another school of thought posits that laws, even if not perfect, can regulate a society thanks to their coercive nature. As far as I am concerned, I agree with the latter for the following reasons.
The first thing that springs to mind is that, although laws do not change people' s heart, they determine people's behavior. A case in point would be a person that is deterred from stealing. Even if he believes that stealing is the only way to survive, the law prevents him from acting illegally. Thus, the coercive nature of laws resolves many internal conflicts in a community.
Another issue I would like to focus on is the adaptability of laws. To illustrate this, let us consider a group of people that demonstrates against a high tax law. The legislators cannot ignore the revolution, as a form of feedback, of their compatriots and avoid considering to slightly alter the law. In this case, both the legislators and the citizens will compromise in order to achieve a viable solution. Even though the solution does completely alter people's minds, it is, to a certain extent, in accord with their beliefs. Therefore, laws are successful in tackling the problems of a society because their adaptive nature balances the citizens' behavior and beliefs.
I concede that some laws are in constant disagreement with some people's beliefs. An informative example would be a law prohibiting abortion. Common sense informs me that a woman in favor of abortion will have an abortion surgery in a country where it is allowed instead of obeying the law of her country on the grounds that her morality cannot be compromised. However, this situation does not disqualify the argument that there is no better alternative than laws to meet exacting society dilemmas.
In conclusion, while laws cannot change people's hearts, their coercive power determines the citizens' behavior regardless of their beliefs. Admittedly, there is no better alternative than laws to ascertain order and pervade in a society.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 643, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'citizens'' or 'citizen's'?
Suggestion: citizens'; citizen's
...ause their adaptive nature balances the citizens behavior and beliefs. I concede that...
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Line 9, column 93, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'citizens'' or 'citizen's'?
Suggestion: citizens'; citizen's
...ts, their coercive power determines the citizens behavior regardless of their beliefs. A...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, so, therefore, thus, while, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 14.8657303371 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 58.6224719101 80% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1856.0 2235.4752809 83% => OK
No of words: 369.0 442.535393258 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0298102981 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38284983912 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72941035619 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 215.323595506 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.542005420054 0.4932671777 110% => OK
syllable_count: 580.5 704.065955056 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.0867496812 60.3974514979 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.8 118.986275619 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.45 23.4991977007 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.05 5.21951772744 58% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.243913722982 0.243740707755 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0698860825839 0.0831039109588 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0446857256056 0.0758088955206 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.13613605454 0.150359130593 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00971400561169 0.0667264976115 15% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 14.1392134831 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.68 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 100.480337079 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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