How to Curb Defiance of Law and Order by Common Citizens?
Question by mandira_nk: How to curb defiance of law and order by common citizens?
breaking of rules and regulations is a common sight everywhere, be it parking of vehicle, driving a vehicle, encroachment of public land, garbage generation & disposal etc.
In a democratic setup how do we improve adherence to rules and regulations by common citizen?
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Answer by thegunner
If a basic rule of living in a free society is freedom of speech, why would the multi-millionaire owners of Yahoo turn over the internet records of dissenting Chinese to the communist authorities-causing them to be tortured, enslaved, and perhaps executed. Would not that issue be more important? Or if we could see how the multi-millionaires that control Yahoo enjoy their wealth, bathed in the blood of the innocents, as it were, would that not be more insightful? Or are they so blinded by the dollars that they can’t or don’t care about the screams of agony that they cause?
Answer by Aaron C
There’s really 2 kinds of laws. Those that are prohibited by statute and those that are morally wrong. There are actually latin terms for both, you’ll discover those when you take your first law class.
Morally wrong laws are usually self-enforced, or enforced by the citizenry. Most people will never commit those kind of crimes, and often they’re committed by people with serious emotional or psychological problems. So it’s a little more than just “defiance of the law.”
Law by statute is another issue, and that sounds like what you’re dealing with. How can you curb it? Take a look at history.
Take for instance the “just say No”, “DARE” and today’s “Faces of Meth” campaigns. When anti-drug laws were passed they were seen merely to curb self-destructive behavior, and thus seen as a statute and not a moral law. But as the negative impacts become more widely known, and the problems of addiction get better understood, we’ve seen a huge drop in their use over time.
Another example would be drunk driving. Drunk driving was seen as an annoyance, and not seen as a problem, until activists from MADD began large advertising campaigns and began pushing for tougher laws. Today drunk driving is seen as a moral offense, and casual abuse of those laws is all but gone… those that do break them are usually alcoholics, and fit into the category I mentioned earlier.
In a democracy the only real way to get laws obeyed more is the to make the consequences better known. This won’t be possible on most laws, and thus we’ll continue to ignore all but the most serious offenses.
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