With no laws or rules to influence your behavior, how do you think you would behave?
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0.000 HBDWith no laws or rules to influence your behavior, how do you think you would behave?
<html> <p>The importance of law in our societies cannot be over emphasized. I have tried to conceptualize what a society would look like without law but what came to my head was Thomas Hobbes' State of Nature where life was short, nasty and brutish.</p> <p>https://s20.postimg.org/fwnqmvjd9/lawless.jpg</p> <p><a href="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/afEJQh3kYok/maxresdefault.jpg"><em>Credit</em></a></p> <p>May be you have not been faced with this dilemma but i will advise you to think about a situation where there is no law governing people in the society. Perhaps, you are also finding it difficult to accept such as 'reality'.</p> <p>Many scholars have called us rational human beings and claim we are superior animals. What they cannot explain is why apparent rational beings act barbaric or irrational.</p> <p>We have laws governing all our behaviours and these laws do not in anyway restrict our freedom from acting. We need to get that correctly first. What the law does is simply to sanction us when our freedom infringes on another person's freedom. </p> <p>We all have rights and these rights cannot be abused on the premise that it is our rights. Killing fellow human being is wrong according to the laws of various societies. Nature, they told us, prohibits it couple with the evidence we find in Holy Books. The law cannot stop you from killing another person but it will make sure you are killed at most if you are found guilty.</p> <p>If we are to agree with what social contracts means, then it is obvious we entered it to protect lives and properties. So this 'freedom' to kill was concentrated in the hands of a sovereign. The freedom in reality, is still with you. You can kill if you choose to. The law will only get you and make sure you are prosecuted because others entered the same contract to 'protect' their lives.</p> <p>Now, with these laws in place, the world is not a better place. There are killings everywhere and every day by some fractions. Someone somewhere is currently robbing, killing and stabbing another fellow man. These things happen every day in different parts of the world. Some were apprehended in the past and some of those doing it currently would also be apprehended and judged by the system.</p> <p>If with these laws there is still insecurity, loss of lives, properties etc., then how perfect or imperfect can a world without laws be?</p> <p>If there are no laws, what would you do? Do you think you will behave morally with no laws to judge your actions? The fear of going to prison, torture by security agents, facing death sentence among other things are the reasons we conduct ourselves in the communities. If there are no such restrictions on your behaviour, do you think you will act better than you do now? This 'no laws' also include religious commands. How human can you be without these laws?</p> <p>Will you attack that lady/man who 'broke' your heart? Will you harm that friend who lend you 1 million dollar because you cannot refund it? Will you harm that landlord who keeps insulting you because of rent? </p> <p>How differently will you behave in a lawless society? Will you call humans 'rational' beings in such society?</p> <p>Your responses would be highly appreciated. Thanks for your time. </p> <p>Your boy @smyle the philosopher.</p> </html>
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