“Laws should be flexible enough to take account of various circumstances, times, and places”

Laws, as rules and guidelines that all people should abide to, are necessary to be accurate and precise. Being a protection to defend human rights and a measure to exercise punishments, laws are often considered to be stringent and hidebound. However, in several cases, I agree that laws should be flexible.

First of all, laws are enacted by human beings, when people are gradually changing their mind due to some external influences, some laws will appear to be unsuitable. For example, the recent gun-control debate galvanized by the fatal shooting in a high school in Florida. Gun-control has always been a debatable issue in the United States, especially in recent decades. The right that people are allowed to bear arms originates from the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, which means that any law that restrict people from owning gun fire goes against the Constitution, which makes it invalid. However, in recent years, with plentiful crimes related to gun abuse, gun-control advocates urge the government to take measures to control the access to guns. Though the authority tends to regard the issue as an individual crime instead of problems of the laws, the content successfully draws people's attention toward the legitimacy of bearing guns.

Another example is the privacy laws. Before the technological advancements, privacy and other knowledge-related products are not considered personal properties. However, with the nowadays privacy and patent are significant issues that can't be ignored. The contentious haggle between Apple and FBI indicates an increasing importance of privacy laws. The authority is demanding the corporation to hack its customer's phone in order to obtain information of the crime, yet Apple refuse the request claiming that there is not righteous to offend personal privacy. In the past centuries, there is no such controversy, since businesses do not have an access to personal privacy, nevertheless, nowadays, it becomes a debatable question. Hence, laws should be flexible in order to catch up with the rapid pace of technology and the progress of personal rights.

Laws should be flexible, however, it still need to be scrutinized and examined carefully. The flexibility of laws is used to adapt to the changing environment and prevent from being outdated, however, some try to corrupt by using the flexibility of law. In India and China, both countries had enacted laws to punish corruption, but why does corruption still happened so frequently? Some candidates are receiving money as subsidy from businesses and claiming that according to the law, it is legal. Thus, for laws that confine authority's power, it might appear beneficial if the law is draconian and inflexible.

In sum, whether law should be flexible, I agree that in some cases, it appear to be more reasonable if the law is flexible. However, every law is needed to be enacted carefully.

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Average: 8.6 (3 votes)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
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Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'access'.
Suggestion: access
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Message: Did you mean 'needs'?
Suggestion: needs
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Message: Did you mean 'appears'?
Suggestion: appears
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, if, nevertheless, second, so, still, thus, for example, first of all, in some cases

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.5258426966 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 33.0505617978 61% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2462.0 2235.4752809 110% => OK
No of words: 467.0 442.535393258 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27194860814 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64867537961 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91623194389 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 252.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.539614561028 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 781.2 704.065955056 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.0052769626 60.3974514979 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.043478261 118.986275619 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3043478261 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.82608695652 5.21951772744 92% => 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 : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.193483284927 0.243740707755 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0630737558879 0.0831039109588 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0636017177558 0.0758088955206 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132598953795 0.150359130593 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.062082084429 0.0667264976115 93% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.1392134831 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.8420337079 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.1639044944 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.26 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 137.0 100.480337079 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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