"Laws should not be rigid or fixed. Instead, they should be flexible enough to take account of various circumstances, times, and places."

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"Laws should not be rigid or fixed. Instead, they should be flexible enough to take account of various circumstances, times, and places."

I agree laws should not be rigid; They should be flexible. But what should be the deciding factor? As mentioned in the question it should take into account of circumstances, times and places. However, I think laws should be treat the crime on how punitive the action was and should also be based upon the reason behind it. For example, take the case of self-defense. Someone is trying to kill you; your response would to just save your life. Now in trying to save your life you inadvertently killed that person. In normal circumstance the punishment for the murder would be death penalty or tantamount to that. However, in this situation as the motive was not bad. It was just that somehow you wanted to save your life. The sentence would not be as punitive as in the former case.

Now consider the case of rape; what is the intention behind rape. No matter what it is, it is bad and should be punished irrespective of the motive behind it. Because the reason is to harm somebody else.

Consider the case of some policemen in mass shooting. His intention is to take down the shooter/s. While in doing that he accidentally killed some civilians. Should he be punishment be same as for the shooter? No, because the reason/intention behind both of those men were different. One was trying to save someone’s life and other the was doing just opposite of that. And hence the punishment should be different.

In conclusion I would like to say that it is the reason/intention that should be the deciding factor instead of place etc. etc.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 225, Rule ID: SHOULD_BE_DO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'treated'?
Suggestion: treated
...places. However, I think laws should be treat the crime on how punitive the action wa...
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Line 3, column 160, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Because” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...d irrespective of the motive behind it. Because the reason is to harm somebody else. ...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 100, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “While” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...ntention is to take down the shooter/s. While in doing that he accidentally killed so...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'so', 'while', 'as for', 'for example', 'i think', 'in conclusion']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.188925081433 0.240241500013 79% => OK
Verbs: 0.179153094463 0.157235817809 114% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0456026058632 0.0880659088768 52% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0553745928339 0.0497285424764 111% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0684039087948 0.0444667217837 154% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.120521172638 0.12292977631 98% => OK
Participles: 0.0325732899023 0.0406280797675 80% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.73900678988 2.79330140395 98% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0293159609121 0.030933414821 95% => OK
Particles: 0.00325732899023 0.0016655270985 196% => OK
Determiners: 0.100977198697 0.0997080785238 101% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0456026058632 0.0249443105267 183% => Less modal verbs wanted (like 'must , shall , will , should , would , can , could , may , and might').
WH_determiners: 0.0162866449511 0.0148568991511 110% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1543.0 2732.02544248 56% => OK
No of words: 271.0 452.878318584 60% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.69372693727 6.0361032391 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05734859645 4.58838876751 88% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.30258302583 0.366273622748 83% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.188191881919 0.280924506359 67% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.151291512915 0.200843997647 75% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0922509225092 0.132149295362 70% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73900678988 2.79330140395 98% => OK
Unique words: 130.0 219.290929204 59% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.479704797048 0.48968727796 98% => OK
Word variations: 45.4666711979 55.4138127331 82% => OK
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6194690265 112% => OK
Sentence length: 11.7826086957 23.380412469 50% => OK
Sentence length SD: 27.5021222759 59.4972553346 46% => OK
Chars per sentence: 67.0869565217 141.124799967 48% => More chars per sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 11.7826086957 23.380412469 50% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.478260869565 0.674092028746 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.94800884956 81% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.21349557522 58% => OK
Readability: 30.6017968875 51.4728631049 59% => OK
Elegance: 1.12903225806 1.64882698954 68% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.28859347646 0.391690518653 74% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.10900856654 0.123202303941 88% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.107173052974 0.077325440228 139% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.451794148205 0.547984918172 82% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.161234620837 0.149214159877 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107690531163 0.161403998019 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.110369414354 0.0892212321368 124% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.363845739498 0.385218514788 94% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0125961616731 0.0692045440612 18% => Paragraphs are so close to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.181051946212 0.275328986314 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.074686620421 0.0653680567796 114% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.4325221239 58% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 5.30420353982 207% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88274336283 123% => OK
Positive topic words: 2.0 7.22455752212 28% => More positive topic words wanted.
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.66592920354 82% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.70907079646 111% => OK
Total topic words: 8.0 13.5995575221 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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