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issue89 Claim: Many problems of modern society cannot be solved by laws and the legal system. Reason: Laws cannot change what is in people's hearts or minds. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based. ======================================================================================= 字数 573 =======================================================================================
The speaker says that problems of modernsociety are less likely to be solved by laws and legal systems, because of thelaws' impossibility of changing people's hearts. From my perspective, I agreewith this claim but not with his reason for it. As we can see, problems are sotypical that many of them are difficult to solve and law suits always arousepeople's attention. And among all sizes of societies, this claim is alsosuitable to them. Furthermore, laws and legal systems are not fair and completeenough to solve all the problems in each country. Problems existing in a society can bedistinguished in many ways and classified in some categories, environmentalissues and the conflicts between science and moral will express the claim easyto understand. As global warming becoming heat among people, most of peoplethink that we should to cut our carbon dioxide emissions to slow down the paceof global warming. Paradoxically, there few laws are put out to restrainpersonal carbon-reducing activity. Admittedly, some people are hedonists whothink that it is our enjoying ourselves rather than considering too much aboutour descendants that matters, which means that even laws may not change theirminds, but I think the most essential problem impeding this issue is the factthat we can hardly know or estimate a person's carbon emission in one year.Another example is the conflicts between science and moral cognition. To bemore specific, clone is such a hotspot that counts. Although some countryintroduced laws about clone, researches on clone aren't totally forbidden. Itis the immaturity of clone technology that makes people's unwilling to acceptit. In each society, no matter big, likeAmerica and China, or small, such as Sweden are all troubled with thoseproblems cannot be solved only by laws. If everything can be solved by laws andlegal systems, there will be no heat discussions about one issue in a country.The likelihood of equal educations' being given to every child is a hard problemconfronting America. In the elementary education period, children cannot choosewhether they will go to a public school or a private school without theconsideration of financial affairs. Although presidents are active in solvingthis problem, which leads to the charter schools, things are less likely to besolved in a short term by laws. However, education issue isn't a problem inSweden as we know. And we also know that the method of solving this problem isnot just by laws. Conclusively, equality on education is the appeal whicharises from people's hearts, but it can't be solved in many countries by laws. Laws' being not complete enough is also areason for problems' existing. In many ways, things are not considered sosimple that a clause in a code can solve a problem. Some people will argue thatthere always is a collision between people's thoughts and laws. It may be true,but many problems are tabled by many outside factors. If those factors areconsidered comprehensively, a majority of problems can be solved. To sum up, it is true that a large numberof problems cannot be solved by laws and legal systems, but there are quite lotsof possibilities that can contribute to it except for just people's hearts ormind. Having a look at many issue cases and societies can easily make thisstatement sound and understandable. |
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