Some people believe laws change human behavior. Do you agree with it?

Recently, the effect of law on human behavior has sparked an ongoing controversy. While some people believe that law influences how people behave, others maintain that it does not entirely affect our behaviours. This essay will discuss why law can produce changes in human behavior.

To begin with, law makes people to accept consequences of their decisions which eventually results in changing or quitting harmful behaviors because otherwise individuals would receive various sentences from paying fines to death penalty relative to perpetrated crimes. Take for example smoking in public places, once law imposed ban on smoking in public places, people stopped smoking in workplaces, restaurants, and the like. A second example is life imprisonment and death penalty against rape, which as severe disciplines, have been forcing people to respect other people's rights. Therefore, passing and enforcing laws can discourage as well as drastically decrease harmful and aggressive human behaviors.

In addition, law can develop exemplary behaviours through positive incentives. For example, in Italy, national law provides that any employee who donates blood is permitted to take one entire day off work with pay, per year. This law induces employees to make an average of one extra blood donation per year. Also, decreasing car insurance costs for careful drivers encourages safe driving behaviours. These exemplify how law can make positive changes in human behaviours through desire for rewards.

In conclusion, for the reasons mentioned above, it seems to me that law has numerous and varied tools in order to make changes to human behavior.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, second, so, therefore, well, while, for example, in addition, in conclusion, as well as, to begin with

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 10.5418719212 28% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 6.10837438424 98% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 8.36945812808 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 5.94088669951 118% => OK
Pronoun: 12.0 20.9802955665 57% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 31.9359605911 106% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.75862068966 69% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1402.0 1207.87684729 116% => OK
No of words: 253.0 242.827586207 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.54150197628 5.00649968141 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98822939669 3.92707691288 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69762773458 2.71678728327 99% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 139.433497537 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.664031620553 0.580463131201 114% => OK
syllable_count: 436.5 379.143842365 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.6157635468 87% => OK
Article: 2.0 1.56157635468 128% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.71428571429 58% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.931034482759 107% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 3.65517241379 109% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 12.6551724138 103% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.5024630542 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.3995832645 50.4703680194 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.846153846 104.977214359 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4615384615 20.9669160288 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.61538461538 7.25397266985 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 6.9802955665 43% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 2.75862068966 181% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 2.91625615764 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.331948226515 0.242375264174 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.11523886365 0.0925447433944 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0700650274367 0.071462118173 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.214131869113 0.151781067708 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0930755651711 0.0609392437508 153% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 12.6369458128 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 53.1260098522 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.9458128079 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.85 11.5310837438 129% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.07 8.32886699507 121% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 55.0591133005 160% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.94827586207 111% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.3980295567 92% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.5123152709 105% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 72.0 Out of 90
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