Claim: Many problems of modern society cannot be solved by laws and the legal system.
Reason: Laws cannot change what is in people's hearts or minds
Whether the laws and legal systems can solve the many problems of modern society is a controversial topic. On the one hand, one might claims that as laws force people to behave optimally and punish who transgress the laws and commit undesirable behaviors, it can solve many problems. However, I agree with the author's claim for several reasons. I will explain my viewpoint in detail.
To begin with, I admit that laws had solved many serious problems of modern society. As the laws can force people not to commit problematic behaviors by punishment, people are likely to act desirable behavior. For example, consider the abolition of slavery by Lincoln. Even though, white people was reluctant to indiscriminate black from white immediately after the law's establishment and need times to change people's undesirable racism, it had actually solved the slavery. If the Lincoln had not established the laws which preclude the slavery, slavery and racism might be still rampant in the United States and suffers the reputation of United States. Likewise, laws can solve some major problems by forcing people's behaviors.
However it does not imply that laws solely can solve the many problems which suffer the modern society. As the society is being more complicated and complex than ever before, there are many problems which are created and disappears nowadays. However, as the society can not establish new laws whenever the problem had arisen and lack abilities to consider all the problems, there are many gaps that laws miss. To illustrate, let us consider water shortage in some countries. Laws do not force every people not to waste their water. As a result, many people in water rich countries can use the waters prodigally and accelerate the water shortage. The problem of water shortage will not be solved unless each people recognize the gravity of water shortage and change their minds not to waste the water. Likewise there are other many problems which laws can not control and require change in people's mind or heart to be solved.
What is more, the laws sometimes can not force people's behavior as the gravity of punishment is recognized differently by each people. People can regard severity of punishments distinctly for several reasons such as wealth, environment, priority, etc. For example, some rich people might regard penalty fee of drunken driving as too small to force them not to drunken drive. They might drive their cars after drinking some beers, even though they recognize that it is illegal behavior, as they regard penalty fee as weak. For another example, there may be some people who consider the penitentiary as sufficient place to live anyway. They are likely to commit illegal behaviors even though they recognize that the verdict will be imprisonment as they think penitentiary as not severe punishment. Likewise, laws solely can not mandate people's behavior as the each people's think about gravity of punishment is divergent.
In conclusion, even though I concede that the laws and legal systems had solved many serious and fundamental problems, I agree with the claim for above mentioned reasons. To solve the problems which are rampant in the modern society, change in people's mind and heart should be on top priority.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 367, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'laws'' or 'law's'?
Suggestion: laws'; law's
... black from white immediately after the laws establishment and need times to change ...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...oblems by forcing peoples behaviors. However it does not imply that laws solely can ...
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Line 5, column 802, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Likewise,
...nge their minds not to waste the water. Likewise there are other many problems which law...
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Line 7, column 418, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ey might drive their cars after drinking some beers, even though they recognize t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, anyway, however, if, likewise, may, so, still, as to, for example, in conclusion, such as, as a result, in my view, to begin with, what is more
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 33.0505617978 85% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 58.6224719101 84% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2732.0 2235.4752809 122% => OK
No of words: 535.0 442.535393258 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10654205607 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.80937282943 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56499000524 2.79657885939 92% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 215.323595506 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.429906542056 0.4932671777 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 858.6 704.065955056 122% => 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: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 3.10617977528 290% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.1218104262 60.3974514979 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.185185185 118.986275619 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8148148148 23.4991977007 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.66666666667 5.21951772744 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 18.0 5.13820224719 350% => 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: 0.407678389162 0.243740707755 167% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.128776526237 0.0831039109588 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102963972736 0.0758088955206 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.273725840999 0.150359130593 182% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0909898895246 0.0667264976115 136% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.1392134831 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 119.0 100.480337079 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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