Why laws are made
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December 14, 2010
Let us understand why laws are made.
When more than one person started living on planet Earth and the logic of 'When you can have, why not me?' started happening in human beings, the system of law got created.
When human beings first started living together, they understood the comfort and the positive points that living together brings. It brought protection from other animals, other tribes, natural calamities and thousands of other things. Life became more sophisticated, luxurious, wealthy, rich, and less hard. Human beings realized that living together brings lot of good things.
But then the problem of 'When you can have, why not me?' came up. To come to an understanding, the system of law was created. This is the basic reason why laws are required. Many things then started
evolving around it - responsibility of a person, duty of a person, freedom given to a person, powers given to a person and restrictions on that person, punishment for breaking the responsibility or restrictions or misusing the powers.
Basically, when human beings started living together, the understanding they created among themselves to live safely and happily evolved into laws: 'You will not kill me, so I will not kill you. Let both of us live.' First it was an understanding, and then it evolved into a law.
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