Thursday, February 25, 2016

Agree

Both quotes made sense to me and I agree with them for the most part. Here's my take...

The first being "Law without force is impotent; force without law is blind." -Blaise Pascal. If there is a law in place, and no one to enforce it, then people will take advantage. Sooner or later, people will start breaking any law because there is no one to keep them in check. Another point though is that people do that every day. For example, someone may speed and still not get in trouble if no one is around. And now the second section of the quote, "force without law is blind" makes sense because if someone does something that is legally allowed, yet gets in trouble for it, then that's wrong. A person can't just make up a law for one certain circumstance and not others.
And the second quote "The capacity of people for good makes democracy desirable; their capacity for evil makes democracy necessary." -Reinhold Niebhur. This quote was a little tougher to explain WHY exactly I agree with it. I agree that there are a lot of people out there that are good people, and democracy is in place to make it like that. And the "evil" people out there are why its set in place.

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