Laws should be flexible enough to take account of various circumstances, times, and places.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
The author asserts that laws should be flexible according to different circumstances. Here, the flexibility can be interpreted in two ways: First, it can be interpreted as that law makers should keep the law updated so it can be in accordance with social progress; alternatively, it could entails that when implementing a law, situations should be taken into account so that a certain type of criminal will be sentenced different punishment according to how. While I take the first claim as justifiable, the second interpretation certainly does not stand.
To begin with, one reason that makes the first interpretion that laws should be updated hold true is that only such can laws reflect the changing need of the society. As the society never cease progressing, it is unlikely that every law applicable to decades ago reflect the societal need for today. An example aptly illustrate this point is the change in the environment law in China. Thirty years ago, there was only a general description of company's duty and responsibility in ensuring their manufacturing would not cause serious environmental pollution. However, as the environment concerns are becoming ever-increasing over years, the new version of the environmental law included a specification of, for example, the limit of gas emission of each type of product, the way that the factory deal with the drainage and chemical disposals and so forth. The change reflects an elevating consciousness of the whole country to deal with the environmental problems, and it indeed helped alleviate the problem to some degree.
Another reason that laws should be modified depending on the situations is that, laws need to reflect the social value at a certain time, which keeps evolving rapidly over time. A century ago, one can hardly imaging homosexual marriage being legal. However, as people's awareness of respecting others' right of pursuing love become elevated, this special form of marriage becomes no strange to people anymore. As such, more an more nations have published the law to admit the legal status of homosexual marriage.
Nevertheless, once a law is established, it should not be hanging loose or taking into account specific situations. The primary for that is ensuring the authority of the legal system, only by which laws will fulfill their very purpose of constraining people's behaviour. Imagine, if too much flexibility is left for the judge, his discretionary judgement may be biased by many factors, such as how he/she personally like the criminal, or even worse, if he recieved bribe from the family of the criminal and so on.
To conclude, when formulating a law, it is necessary to consider the social needs and social values at a particular time in a particular society. However, no flexibility should be left in the implementation of the law.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: The verb 'could' requires the base form of the verb: 'entail'
Suggestion: entail
...ocial progress; alternatively, it could entails that when implementing a law, situation...
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Suggestion:
...terpretation certainly does not stand. To begin with, one reason that makes the...
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Message: The verb 'can' requires the base form of the verb: 'image'
Suggestion: image
...ver time. A century ago, one can hardly imaging homosexual marriage being legal. Howeve...
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Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...trange to people anymore. As such, more an more nations have published the law to ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, so, while, for example, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 33.0505617978 85% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 58.6224719101 87% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2384.0 2235.4752809 107% => OK
No of words: 460.0 442.535393258 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18260869565 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6311565067 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00999908936 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 253.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.55 0.4932671777 112% => OK
syllable_count: 755.1 704.065955056 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 77.4521756065 60.3974514979 128% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.444444444 118.986275619 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.5555555556 23.4991977007 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.16666666667 5.21951772744 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.198101159381 0.243740707755 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0668724061133 0.0831039109588 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0518981846983 0.0758088955206 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.113143998761 0.150359130593 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0338677738336 0.0667264976115 51% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 14.1392134831 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.06 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.93 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 100.480337079 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 11.8971910112 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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