Laws should not be rigid or fixed. Instead, they should be flexible enough to take account of various circumstances, times and places
Laws are formal means of social control that keep a check on society’s deviations. They are supposed to minimise crime rates in any city. But a law must not remain the same and unamended for long. They must change with changing dynamics of our society. Therefore, I agree with the claim that laws should be flexible and take into account the various circumstances, times and places.
To begin with, society is not stagnant, thus the laws it formulates cannot be static either. Laws are meant to protect people and reign illegal dispositions of people. If laws do not accommodate within itself the changes of any society, then, it will have an adverse effect on people’s lives. They might even rob people of their basic, inalienable rights. For example, section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, had, for a very long time criminalised unnatural offences like sex against the order of nature between consenting adults, until recently, when it was scrapped on 6th September 2018 by the Supreme court. This law had unfairly treated many innocent people and made them criminals in the eyes of the law. This was a very repressive law for a lot of people who had no control over their sexual orientations. Other examples where laws had changed over time includes the achievement of universal female suffrage, distribution of family wealth among both male and female children of the family and others.
Moreover, if a law is inflexible, overtime it might take a draconian form. Such laws can also prove to be discriminating for a section of society and deprive them of their opportunities or even prove to be lethal. The incident that comes to mind in this context is the death of the pregnant lady on account of anti-abortion laws. The concerned hospital could not take any steps to curtail her pregnancy when faced with life-threatening complications that finally led to her demise, because of existing laws that criminalised abortion. Abortion had been seen as an act of sin since time immemorial. Overtime laws had been formulated to implement this formally and more strictly. However, this law has proved to be very oppressive as it tries to control women’s bodies and their choices, and in some cases their deaths.
Conversely, it can be pointed out that a certain amount of rigidity and austerity is needed as well in laws. Certain kinds of crimes are so heinous and appalling that the perpetrators of such crimes must not escape severe punishments on account of age, wealth and power. Murders and rapes committed by juveniles must not go unpunished. Indian Government, for example, punished the juvenile person involved in the rape and atrocious murder of Nirbhaya. More importantly, the law should punish all people, wealthy or poor, politician or common citizen in the same manner.
To sum it all, it can be said that laws are made for protecting the rights of the people. It keeps equilibrium and order in society. Laws put a check on the criminal tendencies of people. But laws, also need to grow and evolve and run along with the pace of society. They cannot be so unbending as to adversely affect people’s lives. On the other hand, if it is exercising rigidity then it should do that for all without ant any discrimination based on age, sex, wealth, power, caste or religion.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, finally, however, if, moreover, so, then, therefore, thus, well, as to, for example, in some cases, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 25.0 14.8657303371 168% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 33.0505617978 124% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 73.0 58.6224719101 125% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2763.0 2235.4752809 124% => OK
No of words: 558.0 442.535393258 126% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95161290323 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.86024933743 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78975795559 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 301.0 215.323595506 140% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.539426523297 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 864.9 704.065955056 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 31.0 20.2370786517 153% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.0565092828 60.3974514979 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.1290322581 118.986275619 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0 23.4991977007 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.21951772744 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 15.0 5.13820224719 292% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.268473534689 0.243740707755 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0656376482068 0.0831039109588 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0815641015727 0.0758088955206 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162566196358 0.150359130593 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0705165447607 0.0667264976115 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 14.1392134831 77% => 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: 11.13 12.1639044944 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.6 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 144.0 100.480337079 143% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 11.8971910112 50% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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