So philosophy has never been a significantly big interest of mine. For me it seems to be on a sort of spectrum, you get the eat, breathe and survive on philosophy people that thrive from any mention of Plato and have justifiable arguments for each baffling topic or you get the people that don’t care for philosophy that much. Don’t get me wrong, life’s questions are definitely fascinating but I find it easy to over think the subject and get completely muddled in a big tangled net of new questions.
We are programmed into thinking that the law should always be obeyed, like a Bible for both the religious and non-religious. I too held this view until Chris had questioned the idea in my first HCJ lecture.
There are laws that should unquestionably be enforced and complied with to keep societies in some sort of order and to prevent absolute chaos that can currently be seen in the Middle East demonstrations. We must take into consideration the circumstances of how laws have come into place, for example during authoritarian regimes oppressive laws can be created with a clouded view of society’s best interests and thus can be quite easily questioned.
Motives behind these laws can be greed which is a part of human nature, without any restrictions in place who is to say we wouldn’t constantly desire more? Leaving society always in a state of unrest, a time bomb for this previously mentioned chaos. Mad Max is one example, although somewhat exaggerated, of the negative traits of humanity when law and order collapses.
Law isn’t created as some sort of joke for the authorities or for people to like but it’s just there. In my opinion, it should therefore be unquestionably adhered to. The idea of a law and order safety bubble is a very comfortable one for me.
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