A person who knowingly commits a crime has broken the social contract and should not retain any civil rights or the right to benefit from his or her own labor.
Humans are known to be social beings, since the beginning of evolution. Cooperating with other humans and living together for stronger survival of human race is a known fact. But with the rising population of human species, with no predominant threat for the extinction of human race, this sense of cooperation has dwindled. Humans are committing atrocities against each other, and fighting each other for survival and with the burgeon of civilization and modernization, crime rates are at its apogee. The prompt suggests that a person who knowingly commits a crime has broken the social contract and should not be provided with any civil rights from there on after. In my opinion, I mostly agree with this suggestion and argue that knowingly committing a crime is a grave sin and should be punished accordingly, but based on the intensity of crime, the person should be allowed basic human rights and a second chance to correct himself, for the following three reasons.
To begin with, according to the famous adage, 'human conscience is the most truthful entity', says that even when committing a crime, the moral conscience will guilt the person into not doing it. But if the person has the audacity and selflessness to go against his inner voice then they can be called a monster. For example, Ted Bundy, the cruel rapist who made women fall in love with him and then killed them in the most gruesome way, shows no signs of guilt in committing these heinous crimes. These kind of criminals who knowingly commit a crime for their own pleasure should not be allowed to retain any civil rights, else the society will have to face loss of many more innocent souls.
Furthermore, social contracts are unspoken moral binding contracts that holds the humans together in a society, it upholds the ethical values of the company. Breaking it, is like disrespecting the value of the company, and such act should be punished by depriving them of the right to benefit from his or her own labor. For example, in corporate politics its not uncommon to step on their colleagues to rise up the corporate ladder. But there is a limit to the snubbing and it should not be tolerated when it crosses this limit and damages the other individual or the company values to a great extent, else breaking the social contract will become the new norm and the sense of fear which holds back a human from committing a crime will disappear turning him into a devil. Thus, knowingly committing a crime should be punished accordingly without any concession.
However, humans are continuously evolving and some of them are known to self correct themselves for the better when given a chance. For example, a child stealing money from his dad's pocket for chocolate is a crime that needs just mild punishment. A beggar stealing bun from a bakery to feed himself needs exoneration. Punishing these mild crimes that are performed knowingly, by depriving of civil rights would not be a prudent move. Thus, it is important to judge the extent of the crime and take into consideration the mindset of the criminal and his environmental situation before passing a serious judgement which could hamper their life forever.
In the right of above deliberation, the authors claim to recant civil right and right to benefit from labor on a person who commits a crime knowingly, cannot be concluded without analysis of the seriousness of the crime committed and its impact to the society. Gruesome crimes which thwart the societies growth should be punished with seriousness while other Luke warm crimes committed for the basic survival should be condoned.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 425, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...ghting each other for survival and with the burgeon of civilization and modernization, crim...
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Line 3, column 497, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this kind' or 'These kinds'?
Suggestion: This kind; These kinds
...ilt in committing these heinous crimes. These kind of criminals who knowingly commit a cri...
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Line 9, column 295, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'societies'' or 'society's'?
Suggestion: societies'; society's
...ciety. Gruesome crimes which thwart the societies growth should be punished with seriousn...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, furthermore, however, if, second, so, then, thus, while, for example, kind of, in my opinion, to begin with, to a great extent
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 25.0 14.8657303371 168% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 83.0 58.6224719101 142% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3010.0 2235.4752809 135% => OK
No of words: 611.0 442.535393258 138% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.9263502455 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.97176167858 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61836332222 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 288.0 215.323595506 134% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.471358428805 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 928.8 704.065955056 132% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 68.2130988851 60.3974514979 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.818181818 118.986275619 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.7727272727 23.4991977007 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.54545454545 5.21951772744 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 5.13820224719 272% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.400449679704 0.243740707755 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.12292170377 0.0831039109588 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.131915542522 0.0758088955206 174% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.234967973692 0.150359130593 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0726812751881 0.0667264976115 109% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 14.1392134831 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 48.8420337079 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 12.1743820225 103% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 12.1639044944 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.39 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 100.480337079 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 425, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...ghting each other for survival and with the burgeon of civilization and modernization, crim...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 497, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this kind' or 'These kinds'?
Suggestion: This kind; These kinds
...ilt in committing these heinous crimes. These kind of criminals who knowingly commit a cri...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 295, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'societies'' or 'society's'?
Suggestion: societies'; society's
...ciety. Gruesome crimes which thwart the societies growth should be punished with seriousn...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, furthermore, however, if, second, so, then, thus, while, for example, kind of, in my opinion, to begin with, to a great extent
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 25.0 14.8657303371 168% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 83.0 58.6224719101 142% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3010.0 2235.4752809 135% => OK
No of words: 611.0 442.535393258 138% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.9263502455 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.97176167858 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61836332222 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 288.0 215.323595506 134% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.471358428805 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 928.8 704.065955056 132% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 68.2130988851 60.3974514979 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.818181818 118.986275619 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.7727272727 23.4991977007 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.54545454545 5.21951772744 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 5.13820224719 272% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.400449679704 0.243740707755 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.12292170377 0.0831039109588 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.131915542522 0.0758088955206 174% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.234967973692 0.150359130593 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0726812751881 0.0667264976115 109% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 14.1392134831 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 48.8420337079 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 12.1743820225 103% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 12.1639044944 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.39 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 100.480337079 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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.