Issue178【南智组luckychina第五次作业】

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issue178
It is possible to pass laws that control or place limits on people’s behavior, but legislation cannot reform human nature. Laws cannot change what is in people’s hearts and minds.


What, you may wonder, should be the effect of laws: to regulate and limit people's behavior, or even further, convert human nature and change their hearts and minds? In my point of view, laws serve to control people’s behavior and change their mind in a sense s well, although there are some limitations.

To begin with, laws play a crucial part in controlling and placing limits on people's behavior. As Hanfei, a famous Chinese philosopher contended, human nature was incorrigibly evil and strict controls were needed to regulate human conduct. This idea, as a matter of fact, remains valuable in modern society. We cannot imagine a society where burglars could enjoy their "achievements" without much effort freely, rapists could leave in the moaning sound of victims without guilty, or corruptions could live high on the hog carrying bucks from taxpayers without punishment. Therefore, it is laws that prevent people from crime and grime, which harm to the interests of others and the society.

Moreover, laws also influent our hearts and mind more or less. As an individual born like a piece of empty paper on which anything you can write, one has no excuses to bargain with law provisions and then could be taught to discriminate rightness and wrongness gradually. Singapore, for example, where one would deserve powerful strokes on the buttocks with a bamboo staff if broke laws, has strict legal systems. Citizens controlled by them in this shipshape and affluent little city-state still keep a model of civil virtues in foreign countries where there is not any laws as perfect as in their own country. In this sense, laws have changed our hearts and minds gradually.

However, the effects of laws on human's behavior and mind are one thing, while some deficiencies are another. It is well known that people with free will, if left unfettered, tend to act on behalf of their own max interests, which may results in loses of others' profits. For some deficiencies of laws, sometimes we have to have a balance between our humanity and self-regulation, especially at the time laws are beyond their service. Can we take those to prison, only for they have just refused to take their seats to elders on a bus? Can we charge those into court, only for they have jumped the queue while waiting for buses? Can we punish those for years, only for they have told a lie when answering questions? Actually, there are a myriad of those individuals around us, who have harmed others and the society without any punishment by laws. Hence, when it comes to some behavior and mind beyond regulation by laws, maybe some other methods are called for.

Actually we do not have to be passive on it. Although "old habits die hard", our earnest attempts to break those habits would not be likely to end in frustration with a coordinate marriage of laws and moral education. Education may insert the concept of morality into our mind, compensating the deficiencies of laws and helping maintain the order of the world.

In conclusion, in spite the fact that we may live in a harmonious society with the implementation of the laws, it seems more effective to make a sound balance between laws and moral education, to reform human nature and change our heart and mind as well.

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先顶！明天在bus上给你改！
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