Law and Order

This would be the second time I am writing this article because I had lost the file containing the incomplete draft I had earlier. Well, I have the will, so I won’t be deterred as I had already made up my mind to post an article today.

I was reading an article by Foryoubtc09 Freedom to Commit Crime and the post made me think about earth without all the rules of law in it.

To start with, what are Laws?

According to Oxford English dictionary, one of the definitions says that Law is the whole system of rules that everyone in a country or society must obey. In essence, laws are made to be obeyed.

Laws are one of the things that separates humans from animals. Now, imagine world without all the laws, what kind of world do you see?

Using animals still, cannibalistic species can kill one of their own and it would seem normal, no one would ask questions or flinch. I was watching a documentary on TV sometime ago about lions and learnt that if an adult male without a pride should challenge and defeat another adult male in a pride and wins, it kills all the cubs of make that was defeated.

Referencing that to humans, even though we do not categorically duel one another for family, there has been situations where a woman divorces her husband and marry another man. But, the man doesn’t go about killing her child(ren) because there are rules and laws that set a path we live by, and this is one of the things that distinctly separates us from animals.

Now, imagine a world without these laws setting a path for us to lead our lives, what kind of world do you see? Assuming there are no rules or laws we live by, and everyone lives how they see fit, take what they want when they want, long as they can overpower or outsmart whomever it was that owns what catches their fancy. After all, it is said that an immutable law of nature is that the strong always takes from the weak.

There is a chance that the world would be peaceful in this scenario, and there would only be chaos when there is need for it. Like for instance, one might be compelled to use force to defend themselves when another person is trying to take what is theirs from them.

On another hand, a lawless world might descend into a world that is strictly the survival of the strongest. As seen prominently in the animal kingdom, there are predators and there are preys, and most preys live their days avoiding predators because they are stronger or have the means to overpower them for nutrition. In human, this would be extra, as we have the tendency to take things to the extreme.

Even with all the law and order governing the current life we live, we still break them and will continue to do so as it is our nature and basic instinct. So, that is why the law itself seeks justice when broken. In the article above, Foryoubtc09 argued that there would be less crime rate if humans are allowed the freedom to commit crime. Perhaps, there is some truth in that unless for psychopaths who find gratification in doing harm to others. I had also asked: if there was no punishment for crimes, would there be less crime or more?

Perhaps lawlessness works in Charles Darwin’s favour and humans would have evolved into a more superior species as only the strongest and smartest will survive because of natural selection. And they will pass these traits to their offspring and on and on.

CONCLUSION

I am merely thinking out loud, and merely depicting a figment of my imagination in words. I would very much appreciate your comment and contribution to this, and perhaps there could be a counter-argument to it. However, do not misinterpret any of what I had written to be manifestations of primal instincts or brute nature.

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