issue178 It is possible to pass laws that control or place

kiki_yaUID：46397

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 or restrict people’s behavior or even further, to change what is in people’s hearts and minds? Human nature, in my point of view, is such a sophisticated existence that can hardly be changed by laws.

  When we talk about laws, most of us, I guess, would admit that laws do the effect of controlling or restricting our behavior. We act according to laws, talk according to laws and the whole society, to a large extent, runs according to laws. Apparently, laws and regulations is a fundamental component of the society. Without it, however, the fabric which holds the society together will break up and renders the society become an anthill. Laws provide us not only the regulation to obey but also a variety of forms of punishments to castigate and discipline us if we disobey. As most of us are afraid of losing the property, freedom or the basic requirements of human necessities, we are simply not readily to risk them insanely. Therefore, we can say that laws play a successful role in controlling or confining people’s behavior.

  But laws and regulations is created by man according to their own will. Man constitutes laws to regulate their own behavior in order to enable the world running more orderly and safely, and at the meantime, they add items of punishments into the laws to force themselves to obey it. Thus, when we say people behave according to laws, it is more often they think it is a must, a requirement, a sense of responsibility, a kind of obligation rather than a sense of human nature. As a subordinate to people’s mind, laws cannot change what is in people’s minds and hearts. Deep in people’s mind, are the natural human desires, say, money, sex and the ferocity of animal instinct.   Through laws, most of them are scotched, but they are still there, like ironclad stones, deep in people’s heart. A population regulation of China can compel people only to bear one child, but given the choice, most of them would still prefer to bear two or more. A punishment can throw a burglar into jail, but the vicious thought of stealing is still haunting in his mind. Such cases are numerous.

  It is, to my certain knowledge, through education and self-experience that human nature be reformed. The only way to change human nature is to substitute the wicked thought deeply rooted in people’s minds with sensible ones. By education and self-experience, one can generalize fresh ideas, optimistic attitudes and the good side of the significance of life. Just like a polluted stream, with laws, we can prevent it from further pollution, but to replace it with fresh water, it will once again become a fresh, clean stream.

  In general, undeniably laws play a crucial role in regulating people’s behavior and the normal running of the society, but only through education and self-experience, can human nature be reformed.

kiki_yaUID：46397

怎么没有回应啊........

期待中!

paisleyUID：64183

But laws and regulations is(应为are) created by man according to their own will. Man(应用men) constitutes laws to regulate their own behavior in order to enable the world running more orderly and safely, and at the meantime, they add items of punishments into the laws to force themselves to obey it. Thus, when we say people behave according to laws, it is more often they think it is a must, a requirement, a sense of responsibility, a kind of obligation rather than a sense of human nature. As a subordinate to people’s mind, laws cannot change what is in people’s minds and hearts. Deep in people’s mind, are the natural human desires, say, money, sex and the ferocity of animal instinct. Through laws, most of them are scotched, but they are still there, like ironclad stones, deep in people’s heart. A population regulation of China can compel people only to bear one child, but given the choice, most of them would still prefer to bear two or more（这里感觉很糟糕，你前面列举的人性都是负面的，比如money, sex and the ferocity of animal instinct。后面突然说生两个以上的孩子也是人性，感觉这也是卑劣的人性了。：（ ）. A punishment can throw a burglar into jail, but the vicious thought of stealing is still haunting in his mind. Such cases are numerous.（there are numerous similar cases好象好些）

It is, to my certain knowledge, through education and self-experience that human nature be reformed. The only way to change human nature is to substitute the wicked thought deeply rooted in people’s minds with sensible ones. By education and self-experience, one can generalize fresh ideas, optimistic attitudes and the good side of the significance of life. Just like a polluted stream, with laws, we can prevent it from further pollution, but to replace(这个词用偏了，不能把原来那条”代替”掉吧?最好换个) it with fresh water, it will once again become a fresh, clean stream.


写的挺好的：）
一个建议，尽量少出现I ME MY OPINION这类此，看起来有点随意了。呵呵

kiki_yaUID：46397

谢谢paisley :) 你的建议都很好!

我也觉得那个例子太唐突了呵呵,主要是时间一紧张就想到什么就写什么了 :p 可能再提提人性好的一面就更好了,不过45分钟确实不能随心所欲的写太多....

gteryyUID：114434

If we go out of our way to observe people’s normal life, we could notice that most of the citizens do not pay much atention to the laws in their everyday life, unless something happens and only resort to laws can it be solved. Here comes the question whether laws can change what is in people’s hearts and minds. The answer is yes.

Nobody can isolate him/herself out of the contact with the outside world. Even if a man leads a primitive life in a forest, his mind or behavior relates much to the weather, the harvest of a hunting. Although human nature is quite a complicated problem which even today does not have been understood completely, there is a definite point that is human nature influenced more or less by the society a man lives in. Since the law is the norm for people to live in a certain society, what people cherish at the bottom of his/her heart or in the deepest corner of his/his mind will be affected by the laws.

Obviously, most people do not learn the law specifically except those who major in them or are interested in them. However, most of the people can live abiding by the law. There are probably two reasons to explain this: on one hand, laws are legislated to guarantee the well-being and the maintenance of the custom of as many people as possible, thus most people will do according to them to keep their own benefits; on the other hand, laws are changed with the changing of the society’s regime, therefore as long as people accept the society’s regime, they will accept the law established by it. The white people in American used to consider the black people as slaves, or to be menial and have a low status in the society, they even promulgated laws to circumscribe their equal behavior as theirs. At that time, what in most white people’s mind is ‘yes, they are pariahs, they are our slaves’. But today, as the law having been amended to reassure black people’s equal rights, people realized that they were equal except the color of the skin. If children were born to be taught this way, such ideas will be planted in their minds.

Before anybody does a survey covering a wide enough extent to manifest what on earth human nature is, good or bad, there are evidence only to explain it as the influence of the law. Hence, not only can law be past to control people’s behavior, but also can it affect people’s mind, and even the deepest mind. Because a new born infant is like a blank paper, what are written on it later on will be cultivated in his mind.

kiki_yaUID：46397

写得不错!

但我觉得第二段的论证部分不能很有力的说明你的观点. 但例子不错!

还有我觉得结尾有点问题, 你最后把全文都建立在一个原因上:Because a new born infant is like a blank paper, what are written on it later on will be cultivated in his mind.会不会有悖于主题?