Arguments Against Breaking The Law

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“When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.” -Orson Welles
When people justify breaking the law, it leads to dangerous territories. While some may believe parents should protect and save their child at all costs, breaking the law is too far a length to go because the law is what keeps order, and it is too big of a medical risk.
Some may believe parents should protect their child at all costs because that is what they have been influenced to believe for the past several decades, however there are certain lines you should never cross. “The question “What if everyone did it?” makes sense only if everyone would potentially do it.” How could one being out of the 7.422 billion people in the world possibly know if this “everyone” was to not fall in line, one after the other to break any law just to protect their child? No one can truly know what the fallout would be because people are unpredictable and everyone is different, they think differently, look differently, and act differently but “Would it still be
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Chaos is complete disorder and confusion, people would feel lost without knowing what they can or can not do. Some people need the security of being told what to do and the reassurance that the possibility of bad things happening to them, around them, or to someone they love is limited due to the law. “Law plays an agent of modernization and social change.” Laws change as the world and society do so they can apply to modern activities. If people could do as they pleased with no rules to follow then there is no line to be crossed which means they could do literally anything to save their child. An example would be a parent kidnapping an innocent person, getting their kidney, and giving it to their child that needs it. They could do this with no consequences because they think that if a few people can do it then they can

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