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.
From moral turpitude to ghastly crimes, any modern society is laced with numerous problems of different nature. The author contends that laws and legal system cannot solve many of the society’s problems for the reason that they cannot change what people harbour in their minds or hearts. While, the statement is agreeable in so far that, laws alone don’t suffice for all the societal ills; yet they can mitigate these ills and influence people’s behaviour in longer term.
Admittedly, moral behaviour cannot be legalized by any law. Consider a case of a person who boards a taxi and unconsciously leaves his wallet inside. The cab driver following his conscience calls that person up to return the same. It solely depends on a person’s conscience to discern between what is morally appropriate or inappropriate. If people are morally corrupt, no matter how strict the laws are, when they are given an opportunity or assurance that they are beyond the pursuit of legal system, they don’t refrain from acting criminally to satiate their greed. Crimes committed during mass violence or wars is sufficient to highlights this point. Similarly, politicians and bureaucrats, many a times, tweak laws as per their whims. Moreover, not every aspect of human behaviour can be controlled through legal system. For instance, a child not respecting its elders cannot be threatened by laws. Therefore, these observations corroborates that without a moral compass or proper nurturing of citizens, legal system alone is not enough to solve all the vice of the modern society.
However, the author fails to understand the very principle behind laws and legal system which is to regulate public behaviour and maximize their safety through deterrence. The consequences of violating laws deter people from acting illegally. Without a legal system, a society would witness a jungle like anarchy in which only the mighty would survive and the weaker rest would perish. The prevalence of human rights abuses during medieval times in many of the regions boasting today as modern society irrefutably supports this argument. Similarly, violating established laws is considered a taboo in many societies. This further demoralizes commoners from committing crimes due to the fear of being socially ostracised. In businesses, laws serve to safeguard the rights of the employees as well as the society. If given a free hand, businesses would operate to earn fortunes for their owners with complete disregard to labour rights, environmental protection, consumer rights, tax payments, etc.
Moreover, the author overlooks the long term effect of laws on people’s psyche in his assertion that they can’t change people’s minds or hearts. When a society enacts a law to forbid certain actions hitherto considered lawful, initially people might view it unnatural and may perhaps be unwilling to obey it. However, they slowly start to accept it as a societal norm and the prohibited actions as vice. For example, during Lincoln’s era, slavery of the black population was lawful and has genesis in the belief that blacks are naturally inferior to whites. The anti slavery laws passed by Lincoln administration, on one hand preserved the rights of the blacks, while on the longer term they inculcated a belief in the American society that slavery indeed is a gross crime.
In conclusion, the author is true in his assertion to the extent that legal system alone cannot suffice for abolishing all the problems of the society especially without imbibing moral etiquettes within its citizens. However, he fails to consider that Laws does play a vital role in mitigating those vices, if not completely eradicating them, through deterrence. Finally, the author’s reasoning that legal system cannot change what is in people’s mind or heart can be refuted by considering the long term psychological effects of laws on the society.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 701, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a time' or simply 'times'?
Suggestion: a time; times
...arly, politicians and bureaucrats, many a times, tweak laws as per their whims. Moreove...
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Line 3, column 1089, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...lve all the vice of the modern society. However, the author fails to understand ...
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Line 5, column 997, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ion, consumer rights, tax payments, etc. Moreover, the author overlooks the long ...
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Line 7, column 273, Rule ID: MIGHT_PERHAPS[1]
Message: Use simply 'may', 'perhaps'.
Suggestion: may; perhaps
...ally people might view it unnatural and may perhaps be unwilling to obey it. However, they ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, however, if, look, may, moreover, similarly, so, therefore, well, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 33.0505617978 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 81.0 58.6224719101 138% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3295.0 2235.4752809 147% => OK
No of words: 624.0 442.535393258 141% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.28044871795 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.99799879888 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76785739849 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 323.0 215.323595506 150% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.517628205128 0.4932671777 105% => OK
syllable_count: 1016.1 704.065955056 144% => 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: 12.0 4.99550561798 240% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.0968147114 60.3974514979 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.620689655 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5172413793 23.4991977007 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.62068965517 5.21951772744 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 5.13820224719 234% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.460407053873 0.243740707755 189% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.11433729701 0.0831039109588 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.1275365265 0.0758088955206 168% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.280989375057 0.150359130593 187% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.094947212021 0.0667264976115 142% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 12.1639044944 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.08 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 174.0 100.480337079 173% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => 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: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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.