What I Think of the Legal System

There are times when I think of the law and it seems to be nothing but a hindrance to the way most of us live our lives. But from the other perspective, it is not that your freedom is squelched by the law, but your privileges are protected by it. We give up rights to the government so that we can be protected from each other and ourselves. There was a time where the only existing laws came about naturally and symbiotically in the chaos of the universe through the relationships of all types of matter. “Since earliest times, people have recognized that they are to a certain extent responsible for one another and have obligations to one another beyond those required by the law.” (Essentials of Business Law, Liuzzo, P. 8) But in today’s modern world, the complexity of laws on city, state, and federal levels can be an enormous burden to the ignorant. Almost every day, I see or hear of a situation where someone obliviously wandered into a web of contracts and constricting laws by not having an appropriate amount of knowledge that would have better prepared them for such an incident. I think that the law is only as good as the people who acknowledge and enforce it. The spontaneous and morally grey nature (or nurture) of today’s society causes me to see the law as an immovable, massive system of documents created by millions of different opinions and feelings. In the end, I feel that I won’t ever have much of an effect on the way things are run in the world, but I also feel that freedom comes from inside yourself and cannot be given to you by anyone. It is a feeling or a mentality that can only come from within.