ISSUE178【0706G－~4而后生~小组】第5次作业扩展版 by nap

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TOPIC: ISSUE178 - "It is possible topass laws that control or place limits on people's behavior, but legislationcannot reform human nature. Laws cannot change what is in people's hearts andminds."
WORDS: 570->619          TIME: 0:36:19          DATE: 2007-3-21 Updated

The statement argues that laws can onlycontrol or place limits on people's behavior rather than reform human nature. Iagree this statement though I want to point out that laws can alter people'sbad nature slightly to some extent.

After analyzing the human nature, we mayfind that it is filled with various kinds of thing that laws may forbid.Because human beings are a kind of social animal, they owned many charactersthat help them survive in the wild environment. In the ancient age,people should plant, hunt and defend in the form of tribe. As a result, theyevolved characters such as high developed intelligence, team-work and guile, animportant living character though it is thought to be very harmful. It was intelligenceand guiles that stimulate the ancient people to hunt foxy animals and attackthe nearby tribes for more food and slaves. In the modern age, however, some ofthese characters such as guile and attacking led people to crime to gain moremoney and power to survive or live comfortably. If there were no some form ofrestrictions that control the behaviors of people, the society would be a messthat a large part of people tended to cheat and robe while no one were likelyto produce for their production might sometimes be others'.

Law is a method that regulates people's behavior to prevent potential endless attacking. Given that people might tend to do criminal things to gain more money and power, the victim was apt to avenge which may lead to uncontrollable attacking. Laws, in this situation as a public form of vengeance, came to regulate people's behaviors. For example, if a robber robs one's property, the victim may resort to his friends to revenge the robber or even kill. At this time, laws forbid the victim's action and judge the whole things which may result in sending the property to the victim.

On the contrast, since human nature is ingrained, law can not easily change it. Because human nature is ingrained which is the result of millions years of evolution, what laws can do is only to control people's actions while the nature is deeply in the hearts of people which is superficially. On the other hand, if such regulation fails to work, the nature of human may occur again and some harmful aspects of them may lead to crime. We all notice that most of the criminals are ones that appeared to obey the laws. Because the characters that may harm the society is the nature of these criminals, when they are controlled heavily in laws they may appears innocuous but when such regulation is weaken or even removed such as in some situations that no witness exists and they are strongly motivated to do illegal things these criminals tend to show their natural characters.

However, to some extend, human's hearts and minds can be altered slightly. Since the laws are regulating every aspects of our live and other factors control on us too, we can not easily show our harmful characters. This is like the way that animals are domesticated. For example, most of us have experiences that when we were young we tend to fight which do not lead to serious result. Such action is a form of original nature of people which is forbidden in the press of laws when it is heavily. When we are old enough, because the laws have mollified our motivations, we will not be so easily likely to fight even though laws do not actually forbid such slight form.

In sum, we can conclude that since the nature of human is inveterate laws can not easily change it totally. However, laws can actually weaken our motivations to show the bad aspects of our nature.

本来是打算把Issue17修改完的，但实在是看恶心了，所以决定从高频Issue群里选了一个与Issue17同在一类的题目，都是关于法律的

[ 本帖最后由 nap 于 2007-3-25 12:45 编辑 ]

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The statement argues that laws can only control or place limits on people's behavior rather than reform human nature. I agree this statement though I want to point out that laws can to some extent应该放到句子后面 alter people's bad nature slightly to some extent.

When seeing 不好 the human nature, we may find that it is filled with various kinds of thing that laws may forbid forbid不是这样用. Because humans似乎不对 are a kind of social animal 你自己造的词吧 ：） 这样是不行滴，太中国化, they owned many characters that help them survive in the wild environment. In the ancient age, people should plant, hunt and defend in the form of tribe. As a result, they evolved characters such as high developed intelligence, team-work and guile这个是贬义吧. It was intelligence and guiles that motive 是不是想说 motivate 用stimulate 比较好 the ancient people to hunt foxy animals and attack the nearby tribes for more food and slaves. In the modern age, however, some of these characters such as guile and attacking led people to crime to gain more money and power to survive or live comfortably. If there were no some form of restrictions that control the behaviors of people, the society would be a mess that a large part of people tended to cheat and robe while no one were likely to produce for their production might sometimes be others'.

Law is a method that regulates people's behavior to prevent potential endless attacking. Given that people might tend to do criminal things to gain more money and power, the victim was apt to avenge which may lead to uncontrollable attacking. Laws, in this situation as a public form of vengeance, came to regulate people's behaviors. For example, if a robber robs one's property, the victim may resort to his friends to revenge the robber or even kill. At this time, laws forbid the victim's action and judge the whole things which may result in sending the property to the victim.

On the contrast, since human nature is ingrained, law can not easily change it. Because human nature is ingrained which is the result of millions years of evolution, what laws can do is only to control people's actions while the nature is deeply in the hearts of people which is superficially. On the other hand, if such regulation fails to work, the nature of human may occur again and some harmful aspects of them may lead to crime. We all notice that most of the criminals are ones that appeared to obey the laws. Because the characters that may harm the society is the nature of these criminals, when they are controlled heavily in laws they may appears innocuous but when such regulation is weaken or even removed such as in some situations that no witness exists and they are strongly motivated to do illegal things these criminals tend to show their natural characters.

However, to some extend, human's hearts and minds can be altered slightly. Since the laws are regulating every aspects of our live and other factors control on us too, we can not easily show our harmful characters. This is like the way that animals are domesticated. For example, most of us have experiences that when we were young we tend to fight which do not lead to serious result. Such action is a form of original nature of people which is forbidden in the press of laws when it is heavily. When we are old enough, because the laws have mollified our motivations, we will not be so easily likely to fight even though laws do not actually forbid such slight form.

In sum, we can conclude that since the nature of human is inveterate laws can not easily change it totally. However, laws can actually weaken our motivations to show the bad aspects of our nature.


只看了一段，在改下去已经没有意义，希望你能接受这个现实， 我觉得你写作的方法似乎不对，特别是许多表达非常不地道，像是硬用中文翻的，不知道你什么时候考作文，如果你觉得我的建议有帮助的话可以再联系我。