Why do individuals obey the law? Is it from fear of persecution, from genuine conviction or for prudential and utilitarian reasons?
Q. Why do individuals obey the law? Is it from fear of persecution, from genuine conviction or for prudential and utilitarian reasons?
In this essay, actually I would like highlight my understanding to the concept of obeying the law. Essay outlines the approaches followed in this essay. I defined that law is a phrase means a role of conduct or policy established by custom, authority or agreement. During this essay I would look briefly to the law definition to be clear. On political obligation I used to put the question with which people are concerned as: Why do individual obey and ought to obey the law?, is the obeying of law comes from fear of persecution, or from genuine conviction or is it for prudential and utilitarian reasons. The aim of this essay is to draw the attention to the people who are really worry and don't aware of the question "why do obey the law?" First of all, the first section I defined law in general and how the people live in long years ago and practice (obey) their law. The second section describe the question is there an obligation to obey the rules? and support my ideas by examples. In addition when people break the law?. Finally, clarified some people opinions for obeying the law and other people obey the law in limitation in some rules and finally my views.
I defined the law as a rule of behave or policy established by custom, agreement, or authority. The law has existed before the dawn of the human race. However, no other species have adopted laws to fit their immediate needs more than humans. As groups of humans began living in larger and larger groups, competition for resources such as food, water, shelter, and even mating partners grew increasingly. Therefore, the leaders of these basic forms of society found it necessary to set guidelines for sharing and protecting these resources. As these societies grew in complexity, so did the need for laws. While in its initiative stage law primarily protected substantial such as life, and property, the scope of laws has grown to encompass moral values as well. However, these values often differed from society to society. With each passing year, more and more laws are coming into effect. Consequently, more and more people are growing unaware of the laws that govern them. In effect, this ignorance of the law stops its effectiveness as a deterrent of crime. Therefore, modern law as the state founded on a "social contract" among its citizens, it follows that obeying the laws of the state is not legal, but as well a moral duty of obeying the laws, a binding obligation conferred upon its citizens by the terms of this contract. This is essentially, the so called "voluntaristic" theory of political obligation, advanced in the early modern political thought of Hobbes and Lock to explain and justify why citizens do obey and ought to obey the laws of the state: it is "they want to" under the terms of the social contract which they accept in return for the security and the safeguards to their rights which the state provides them with. Somewhat differently, the Irish thinker Burke argued that political obligation is a duty conferred upon citizens of an orderly and organic community.
In this essay, actually I would like highlight my understanding to the concept of obeying the law. Essay outlines the approaches followed in this essay. I defined that law is a phrase means a role of conduct or policy established by custom, authority or agreement. During this essay I would look briefly to the law definition to be clear. On political obligation I used to put the question with which people are concerned as: Why do individual obey and ought to obey the law?, is the obeying of law comes from fear of persecution, or from genuine conviction or is it for prudential and utilitarian reasons. The aim of this essay is to draw the attention to the people who are really worry and don't aware of the question "why do obey the law?" First of all, the first section I defined law in general and how the people live in long years ago and practice (obey) their law. The second section describe the question is there an obligation to obey the rules? and support my ideas by examples. In addition when people break the law?. Finally, clarified some people opinions for obeying the law and other people obey the law in limitation in some rules and finally my views.
I defined the law as a rule of behave or policy established by custom, agreement, or authority. The law has existed before the dawn of the human race. However, no other species have adopted laws to fit their immediate needs more than humans. As groups of humans began living in larger and larger groups, competition for resources such as food, water, shelter, and even mating partners grew increasingly. Therefore, the leaders of these basic forms of society found it necessary to set guidelines for sharing and protecting these resources. As these societies grew in complexity, so did the need for laws. While in its initiative stage law primarily protected substantial such as life, and property, the scope of laws has grown to encompass moral values as well. However, these values often differed from society to society. With each passing year, more and more laws are coming into effect. Consequently, more and more people are growing unaware of the laws that govern them. In effect, this ignorance of the law stops its effectiveness as a deterrent of crime. Therefore, modern law as the state founded on a "social contract" among its citizens, it follows that obeying the laws of the state is not legal, but as well a moral duty of obeying the laws, a binding obligation conferred upon its citizens by the terms of this contract. This is essentially, the so called "voluntaristic" theory of political obligation, advanced in the early modern political thought of Hobbes and Lock to explain and justify why citizens do obey and ought to obey the laws of the state: it is "they want to" under the terms of the social contract which they accept in return for the security and the safeguards to their rights which the state provides them with. Somewhat differently, the Irish thinker Burke argued that political obligation is a duty conferred upon citizens of an orderly and organic community.
