The Law Paradigm

There is a consensus amongst most people that laws exist to provide for the well-being of people. I whole-heartedly agree; laws are in place to control us and to restrict us from acting in the animalistic ways that we would act without them. Laws set up a system of suffering, doling out horrible punishments for crimes. However, some crimes exist to combat differing views on an issue.

For example, women's suffrage required the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. This amendment has and continues to give the right to vote to women everywhere. However, what would occur if this law were to be suddenly repealed. Would society revert back to an age where women could not vote or would society stay the way it is even without the law.

Take another amendment, the 13th, which gives African Americans freedom from the bondage of slavery. If this amendment were to disappear, would our society revert back to once again condemning Africans to a life of work without pay? Would we be so audacious as to revert back to the once normal societal theory that was held?

Sadly, humanity would break any law, if it could. (I know that I am grouping the actions of a group to such a broad term as "humanity" but the society in which we live is determined by the actions of these groups.) The normal tendency for many people is to care only about themselves. For example, if a person sees a fire, he does not usually turn back to see if the person running behind him is okay. We are a selfish race of creatures always worrying only about ourselves. As selfish animals, we would use any loophole (like reverting to slavery or not giving women voting rights) in the system to benefit ourselves financially, personally, or politically.

I want to see a world where there should not have to be laws for the world to be stable. Stability is achieved now because we as a people think that laws are needed to control us. As long as ambition, greed, or jealously exists, the world needs laws, and in fact cannot exist without them. Laws limit us, but only because we allow it to limit us; take control of yourself and decide for yourself how to act in such a away that not only benefits you, but also allows equal opportunities for everyone else.