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21) Laws should be flexible enough to take account of various circumstances, times, and places.
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Laws refer to statutes that are conferred by the legislature confining people's deeds, the standards by which evil deeds should be punished. In many circumstances, laws must be very strict. This triggers the controversy of whether laws should be flexible to take into consideration different situations. In my perspective, due to the consideration of development, laws are indeed supposed to be changeable to a certain extent; however, too much flexibility of laws will be interrupting to people's understanding of law, as well as deleterious to the stability of the society. In fact, only when laws are more encompassing and strict, can various situations be controlled and efficacy of law be maintained.
Throughout the history, laws are assuredly not unchanged. This results from the preposition that laws should be adaptable to changing society. After American Independent War, laws must be emended to eliminate any colonial ordinance set by English colonists; after Women's Suffrage Movement, laws cannot remain its discrimination rules to exclude women voters. To advance more smoothly in the future, it is impossible for laws to be invariable, for laws sometimes do not represent some part of the people. When the majority of the people, who are in turn the supporters of laws, protest for their rights, laws, to maintain the majesty, should be changed to acclimate their social values.
However, too much flexibility of laws will degrade people's acknowledgement and thus the stability of the society. In a certain length of span, if laws change a lot, people will get confused about what is prohibited to do. For example, if a country issues embargo frequently, which exerts great impact on import and export, merchants may become very puzzled and even angry eventually. What’s more, it is also possible that easily changed laws will render officials an accessible way to extenuating their evil deeds. This space will be a vintage shelter for the ones who have absolute rights as well as a heart without moral standards, which cannot be more noxious to the society.
In fact, I disagree with this statement in that to take account of various situations, laws should not necessarily be flexible, rather, it is more reasonable to achieve this goal, laws should be more detailed and divide every situation into the smallest part, thereby make it clear to people about the deeds which are permitted in what specific situation. Only if laws are more encompassing and strict, can both the various situations be controlled and efficacy of law be maintained.
On balance, from the angle of history, it is impossible that laws can be unchanged, which results from varied values in different times. But too much flexibility is deleterious to the society in terms of the difficulty of people to adapt and the danger of officials’ manipulating upon laws. Laws should be encompassing to take into account different situations. |
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