issue178

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215. 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.

Whenever there is a problem, there is a law; it seems to be an axiom in the civilized society. Laws is certainly an important symbol of human intelligence, we pass laws to restrict people’s behavior in the district of permission, solving problems in such a way that is more compulsive than persuasive. In this regard some one might say that laws cannot change what is in people’s hearts and minds, promoting no reforms in human nature. I have to say this point that seemingly well stands lack the thought of the reason why law is created.

As we trace back to the source of the Western’s culture and tradition, both scintillating philosophical ideas and a comprehensive system of laws would be at list. We should say that the Greek and Roman shared that glory, the great mind like Socrates and Cicero alike lightened the human intelligence and conscience in the darkness of ignorance and savageness. It is rightly in the human’s hearts and minds where lay the first idea of law-- the law is created to solve the existing problems such as the existence of evil actions, and these actions rose exactly from the bottom of human’s hearts and minds. So it is reasonable to contend that the law, like philosophy, was created to reform human nature, but in a more violent way perhaps.

Unlike philosophy, which reform human nature by provoking the sleeping conscience and intelligence, the law improves the humanity by putting severe restrictions on us, for we are born to sin. Since the Adams and Eve were banished by God, the original sins probably could be erased by a lifelong penitence, but to society, it is more effective to control them by law. The righteous could get redemption by self penitence, while more people who nearly sold their souls to devil stops the depravation at the consideration of law, and in this way, they got something more than redemption. At the thought of this, we should admit that our minds and hearts have been changed because of laws out of reverence and fear.

Laws, furthermore, changes with the development of the society, according to new problems occurred. The content of the new established law is itself a way though which the new problem was apprehended and solved, and by this way more changes could be made in people’s minds. Marriage between homosexuals, for example, forbidden in most countries, gets its legal approval in Holland. After this, more people consider the homosexual to be commonplace. Laws thereby show the change of human minds and correspondingly alter more people’s attitude towards a certain matter.

The law, we fear it for its severity; love it for its justice. Like the shields in Athena’s hand, it protect us from the assault of evil, freeing another hand holding golden spear of intelligence to wave fiercely, from far ancient times to now. Thus attribution should be deserved for law’s contribution in the changes of human nature.

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稍微提醒一下，请不要一天发布2篇以上文章好吗？斑竹和网友的精力有限，每天每人一篇文章是作文版不成文的老规矩呢 ^_^ （当然不是那么绝对的严格）

很高兴，因为我想你看过了置顶的帖子和公告，不过你的题号顺序好像有问题哦。这一个是issue178（你写成了215），上一个是issue121（你写成了48）。

再仔细看一下这个公告吧。谢谢 ^_^
https://bbs.gter.net/announcement.php?s=&forumid=23

简要评述一下：这篇文章观点很新颖。第3段的论证，看上去有点费解，也许是因为我对于sin这些东西感到比较玄而不易理解吧。能够从philosophy和law的对比出发来论述，比较有新意。3，4段的论述，如果能更进一步，那就更好了。
语言上的小错误很不应该。例如laws is这样的错误，就不一一指出了。