It is ok to decide laws for a whole. I'm not really sure about if people can decide for themselves what is moral and what isn't. I like to think that if there were no laws, people would not kill eachother, but I honestly have no idea.
I keep thinking about Lord of the Flies...
Maybe when we advance as a race, it would be ok to do without laws, but we need them right now. We still don't know exactly how to manage our primal instincts (killing, fighting, having sex), so I think we still need to have laws to build a general idea of how to keep things orderly.
Otherwise, if we had no laws, how would we advance if nothing was orderly? I feel like we would resort back to caveman days and occupy ourselves with thoughts purely of survival rather than higher concepts.
How could we think about a better human race when we are too worried about being killed by another tribe?
Sure, you can say that we would be a lot freer without laws and we could live naturally, but we really need to consider what the human race's goal is. I think it is advancing since that is the direction we are taking. We are very curious animals.
I believe that we do things in purely selfishly ways, as such, there are times when people do wrong, even with the threat of punishment. This concept is discussed in Freakanomics, Fines and punishments are simply the costs of actions, If you go to the candy store in the mall and want some candy, why do yo pay for it, why might you steal it? The guilt reflex in the human mind simply does not pose a bi enough deterrent to make a lawless society feasible on a large scale. Experiments with communes have occasionally been sucessfull because they exacerbated the guilt response by forcing you to personally know anyone you might hope to steal from. On a small scale we are actually capable of doing things for the greater good, because we are a significant part of the greater good, with the size society has attained, the bigness of the world is simply in comprehencable, and therefore one feels less obliged to do right by it.
Laws are enforced guidelines set by a society.
ReplyDeleteIt is ok to decide laws for a whole. I'm not really sure about if people can decide for themselves what is moral and what isn't. I like to think that if there were no laws, people would not kill eachother, but I honestly have no idea.
I keep thinking about Lord of the Flies...
Maybe when we advance as a race, it would be ok to do without laws, but we need them right now. We still don't know exactly how to manage our primal instincts (killing, fighting, having sex), so I think we still need to have laws to build a general idea of how to keep things orderly.
Otherwise, if we had no laws, how would we advance if nothing was orderly? I feel like we would resort back to caveman days and occupy ourselves with thoughts purely of survival rather than higher concepts.
How could we think about a better human race when we are too worried about being killed by another tribe?
Sure, you can say that we would be a lot freer without laws and we could live naturally, but we really need to consider what the human race's goal is. I think it is advancing since that is the direction we are taking. We are very curious animals.
I believe that we do things in purely selfishly ways, as such, there are times when people do wrong, even with the threat of punishment. This concept is discussed in Freakanomics, Fines and punishments are simply the costs of actions, If you go to the candy store in the mall and want some candy, why do yo pay for it, why might you steal it? The guilt reflex in the human mind simply does not pose a bi enough deterrent to make a lawless society feasible on a large scale. Experiments with communes have occasionally been sucessfull because they exacerbated the guilt response by forcing you to personally know anyone you might hope to steal from. On a small scale we are actually capable of doing things for the greater good, because we are a significant part of the greater good, with the size society has attained, the bigness of the world is simply in comprehencable, and therefore one feels less obliged to do right by it.
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