Both laws and morality, severed to regulate or direct human's behavior, have become prevailing concepts in the contemporary world. In recent days, there are many debates on whether laws can change human nature or not. As far as I am concerned, laws can not only govern people's behavior but also affect what is in people's hearts and minds.
In our daily lives, various laws govern or control people's behavior to maintain a peaceful, orderly and relative stable society. Without laws, every one would be free to do whatever he wanted, then the society would be in disorder. For example, if there were no laws about how to drive or walk in a two-way street, then every one just go either side as he wanted randomly, the streets might be in highly congested and no one could move a pace further. If there were no laws about how to deal with rubbish and emitting polluted water, people would hardly breathe freely because the whole world would be a rubbish dump.
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Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior
English: Human behavior and Intelligent behavior d...And if there were no laws about criminology, people might be bewildered by various fraud, plunder and murder, then every individual's security would be in egregious threaten state and the whole society would be in frantic chaos. Since all people live in a constructed world, they are not isolated individually but need to associate with others from time to time, then it is of essential necessity to have laws to regulate different aspects in any society.
Laws not only put limits on people's behavior but also change people's hearts and minds. Throughout the legislation, people regulate their conducts in order to immune from punishment, and thus a consensus of morality is formed, which directly or indirectly produce influence on people's hearts and minds in the end. Consider, for...
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I agree it is true that law does make it easier for people but there are still some deviants who do not care about the sentence they will receive because on the off chance they will get away with it. We cannot control peoples behaviour and make them have morals we can just make society a easier place to live in if law is in place.
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