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Why Is La Law Important To A Society

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Some may say that human nature is just instinct ,but according to dictionary.com human nature is the psychological and social qualities that characterize humankind, especially in contrast with other living things. In a society you need three of the many things to make it well functioning. Those three things are law, effective communication and respect. The reason for this is because in a society law is needed to let people know what they are not aloud to do and it keeps you in check and from having everyone do what they want without consequence. As well as effective communication because that way everyone knows each others point of views and way of thinking. Then people can work together instead of trying all to do it their way and everything collapsing at the end. Lastly respect because without that there would be crime, respect is what makes something have value because if you lack respect for someone why would you care what they think. Those are my three reason for a society to be working well. …show more content…

Although critics may argue that law is flawed because laws can be broken by people, laws help keep people in check and from doing what is wrong because there are consequences to those actions. Even though laws can be broken there are things like jail or prison sentences that can take many years and even fines of thousands of dollars which prevent people from wanting to break the law. Without laws everyone could do as they please without and negative outcome of themselves. An example of having no law would be in the novel lord of the flies. In this novel everyone starts to try making their own group ,but at the end they end up killing each other as without thinking anything wrong of it. What this shows is that without law, people even kids can get out of control because they had nothing to remind them that it was wrong to kill another human

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