Laws should be flexible enough to take account of various circumstances, times, and places.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developi

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

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.

Laws play an important role in modern society, as they protect people’s rights and keep our society operating at a peaceful and efficient pace. Nevertheless, our society is an extremely sophisticated set in which everyone and everything is so unique that there is no way to include all those details in the laws. Following this idea, some people argue that laws should be flexible enough so that we can find a reference in laws no matter how special and unique situation we have encountered in the real life. To some extent, I agree with the idea that we should allow some variances within laws, but we should also take very careful steps when deciding how “flexible” our laws are going to be.

On the one hand, it is undeniable that our society is too intricate to be confined within a limited set of detailed clauses consisting “the laws”. We can easily find similar cases in the history that resemble what is going on right now. Nevertheless, despite all the similarities, no exactly the same stories could be found again: the people who got involved, the incentives that triggered the case, or the whole society itself, have always been constantly changing and are going to stay changing in the foreseeable future. As the saying goes, “you can never step in the same river twice”. As a result, we have no choice but allow some flexibility in our laws so that they can be applied to most of the cases that happens in our society, otherwise our judges would have no way to refer to any clause in the laws as they are too specific that some of those details will always contradict to the actual facts thus being inapplicable.

That being said, we also have to focus on the primary functionality of the laws per se: they are meant to ensure justice in our legal system. Laws determines what are the rights that every citizen in our society enjoys as well as what are the crimes that are strictly forbidden and of which the conductor will be punished as a consequence. In this sense, laws draw a clear line which sets apart wrongdoings and their counterparts, so there bears no ambiguity among all the definitions and criteria within laws. For example, when defining “sexual harassment”, if the law allowed some ambiguity like “behaviors containing sexual implications that offends others”, some people might argue that their intention contains no sexual implications as “behaviors containing sexual implication” is not clearly defined. As a result, people clearly conducted crimes might manage to circumvent the punishment of justice within our legal system.

To make a conclusion, from those two perspectives above, the reality determines that we can by no means create a set of laws that include every detail of cases in the actual intricate society, whilst we should also not allow too much ambiguity that people can take advantage of and circumvent their due punishment, so I argue that the legislators should try to find the balance point between specificity and flexibility that suits our society the best.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 915, Rule ID: ACTUAL_EXPERIENCE[1]
Message: Use simply 'facts'.
Suggestion: facts
...e details will always contradict to the actual facts thus being inapplicable. That being ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, nevertheless, so, thus, well, for example, as a result, as well as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 26.0 11.3162921348 230% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 57.0 33.0505617978 172% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 54.0 58.6224719101 92% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2579.0 2235.4752809 115% => OK
No of words: 514.0 442.535393258 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01750972763 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76146701107 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96176753819 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 247.0 215.323595506 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.480544747082 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 815.4 704.065955056 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.2370786517 74% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 34.0 23.0359550562 148% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 100.187158192 60.3974514979 166% => OK
Chars per sentence: 171.933333333 118.986275619 144% => OK
Words per sentence: 34.2666666667 23.4991977007 146% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.4 5.21951772744 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More 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: 0.122887051724 0.243740707755 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0468467036859 0.0831039109588 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0354373526569 0.0758088955206 47% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0820001191563 0.150359130593 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0283155684579 0.0667264976115 42% => 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: 19.3 14.1392134831 136% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.97 48.8420337079 76% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.6 12.1743820225 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.43 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.73 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 100.480337079 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.6 11.2143820225 139% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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