Laws should be flexible enough to take account of various circumstances, times and places.
No one can escape the long arm of the law. Some think that the law should be accommodating enough especially when the situation being considered varies immensely from when the law was made. One the other hand, others believe that a law should always remain as is, having passed through all the mandatory legislative processes. However, it is clear from historical trends that one size does not fit all when it comes to a lot of areas, the law is not an exception here. To be truly just and fair, laws need to be adaptable to the peculiarities of the cases they are applied to.
The prestigious past president of the United States of America and a founding father, Benjamin Franklin, puts flexibility in law into practice when he had the opportunity to decide a matter. This was a case of petty theft perpetrated by an old woman in the community. The old woman narrated unashamedly how her tough financial situation and lack of help had driven her to steal. Considering the matter, Benjamin Franklin could not simply mete out punishment as stated in the law. He rebuked the old woman and requested everyone in the gathering to contribute for her needs. In that situation, applying the law directly would not have resolved the underlying issue of lack of brotherliness in the community.
Asides circumstance, time is a vital factor to consider in determining a case. Without making the pre-industrial revolution laws a bit flexible, it would have been very difficult carrying out justice in the technology age. For instance, how would the old laws have applied to online privacy violation? The change in times has opened up a wide range of possibilities, thus, the need for the law to be flexible so that it can cover new scopes of human behaviour and criminal activities. Several investigations have revealed how terrorist organisations have recruited and conducted attacks from the web - over which an inflexible law has little power. The creation of cyber-laws has helped greatly in maintaining law and order both online and physically.
It is undeniable that taking place into account has made the law more admissible in areas of diverse practices. Applying the laws with the same methodology in regions of different cultural, religious or ethnic practices will inevitably result in commotion and unfairness. What kind of tumult may ensue when the law is imposed as is on the ancient and highly revered traditions of a viilage people? To ensure that equality is preserved, the law must accommodate the practices of the various cultures.
In conclusion, to ensure the transparent dissemination of justice, laws need to be accommodating of the circumstances, time and place variances associated with each case. While it is a good idea to have a central law from which peculiarities are derived for each case, the flexibility of the laws itself is what makes justice truly possible. If anything, rigid laws can only lead to injustice.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, so, thus, while, for instance, in conclusion, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 33.0505617978 64% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 58.6224719101 116% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2446.0 2235.4752809 109% => OK
No of words: 491.0 442.535393258 111% => OK
Chars per words: 4.9816700611 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70728369723 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95185495634 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 271.0 215.323595506 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.551934826884 0.4932671777 112% => OK
syllable_count: 791.1 704.065955056 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.596839801 60.3974514979 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.916666667 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4583333333 23.4991977007 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.16666666667 5.21951772744 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.303923443789 0.243740707755 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0779614909517 0.0831039109588 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0612983327896 0.0758088955206 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.160861059287 0.150359130593 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0539896392867 0.0667264976115 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.1392134831 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 12.1639044944 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.13 8.38706741573 109% => OK
difficult_words: 140.0 100.480337079 139% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.