“Laws should be flexible enough to take account of various circumstances, times, and places”
The purpose of the legal system is to deliver justice not to uniformly sentence people to punishment; therefore, in there interest of true justice, circumstance, time, and place must be considered in the execution of the law. A necessary precedent for this execution of justice is laws that are flexible enough to allow for consideration of such factors in their enforcement.
Firstly, examine the crime of theft. While one could certainly assert that stealing is never morally good, it is necessary to concede that at times it's morally permissible. For instance, if someone steals because they and their family are starving, those circumstances differentiate the crime from someone who steals out of avarice or for the thrill of stealing. Assuming that the two thieves have stolen an equal value of items, justice would dictate that the person stealing out of necessity does not merit the same severity of punishment as the person who stole for enjoyment. A provincial outlook in this case, considering only the crime while neglecting the circumstances, has serious repercussions; in fact this doctrinaire approach is often carried out in modern society. All it does is further propel low income families into poverty by often stripping them heir main provider. While the crime by necessity does not merit amnesty from the law, it does deserve clemency.
Furthermore, time needs to be considered when carrying out the law. Utilizing the case of Cyntoia Brown as an example, it's evident that as time passes and society gains more knowledge and insight into the human condition, the definition of what constitutes criminal activity changes. Cyntoia Brown was a victim of sex trafficking who was pimped out by her boyfriend in the early 2000s. When she was 14-years-old she felt her life was in danger during a meeting with a jon and shot him in self-defense. During the trial of the case, she was considered a prostitute, rather than a sex-trafficking victim and consequently sentenced to life in prison. Her case has recently received significant media attention and served as an impetus for changing the law so that someone under the age of 17 cannot be considered a prostitute given that at that age prostitution would almost certainly not be consensual. This case, a true travesty of justice, shows that when time can reveal egregious errors in previous decisions of the law. Moreover by allowing for sufficient flexibility in the law justice can better be carried out because there is the opportunity to correct past errors. Following the change of the law in Tennessee, the location of this case, Cyntoia's case was reviewed and after being rehabilitated she was released.
Admittedly there are crimes that are absolutely not justifiable, such as rape, and therefore not every law should be flexible. Rape has always been wrong and neither circumstance nor time will change that. However, this suggestion for flexibility is not a blanket suggestion and there are plethora of examples of when justice would have been better served had the law been more flexible, such as the case of Cyntoia. Laws should be reviewed by professionals and adjusted to allow for the best execution of justice, not the assignment of the harshest punishment.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: propelled
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Suggestion: Moreover,
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, look, moreover, so, therefore, while, for instance, in fact, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.5258426966 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 12.9106741573 155% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2718.0 2235.4752809 122% => OK
No of words: 531.0 442.535393258 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1186440678 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.80035803286 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89492760332 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 270.0 215.323595506 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.508474576271 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 864.9 704.065955056 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.4045415389 60.3974514979 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.545454545 118.986275619 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1363636364 23.4991977007 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.63636363636 5.21951772744 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 5.13820224719 253% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.209277985265 0.243740707755 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0643590218602 0.0831039109588 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0587907419037 0.0758088955206 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141789111294 0.150359130593 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0671985101557 0.0667264976115 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.96 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 139.0 100.480337079 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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