Why Is Law Breaking Wrong

Have you ever stopped and asked yourself why we -- the whole human race -- are bound to many laws? And that is we are to step out of line in anyway we are punished for being different or who we really are on the inside? We get discriminated against, harassed, and even falsely accused of things that we have no control over. More common than not, if your a person of color and you’re in trial for the same things that someone white did as well you, the person of color, have a much higher chance of being charged or even imprisoned because of what you look like. The American country was built upon the thoughts, theories, and hope that here in the land of the free and that we can be ourselves without being scared of the world because of what we are. Laws were, and still are, being made to control what we do. For the better or for the worst we must follow the rules. But yet people still disobey them, you’ve probably broken them some point in your life without even knowing it because of how you were raised. In a way, laws are made to be broken by someone that wants to be different than everyone else. …show more content…
One good example of this would be the Eighteenth Amendment, the prohibition of alcohol usage and sells. All it really did was make many people angry with the ban. Al Capone killed people that stood in his way of making money through the sales of alcohol, those innocent lives of citizens and police could have been saved if we wouldn’t have passed that one law. So if we think about it, are laws the real cause of some unneeded deaths? Gang violence is illegal, but are the children and teens that live in neighborhoods overrun by gangs safe from being attacked? Yes, some laws have led to unnecessary deaths, and no, those kids might be living in fear of being hurt or hunted down for being in the gangs. Wouldn’t a world be better without strict laws? The answer is nothing more than a