Tuesday, July 18, 2006
The battle of Laws by Leta Mills
Since the United States was founded, the government has been adding more and more laws, many of which are obviously helpful and necessary but some of which some people feel lead to too much restraint on their personal freedoms. Do you think we have too many laws in our society? If so, what's one law that should be changed? If you were in control of laws and could change only one, which law would it be?
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I think that there are many laws that may seem kind've rediculous and unnessisary, but then you also have to consider the fact that although the law seems dumb someone else was dumb enough to do somthing that caused the law in the first place. I feel like yeah some of the laws are rediculous but then i think about it and without some of those laws people would be rediculous, some people have no common sence and with out these guidelines would cause problems.
If i could change one law i would change the law of. In Marshalltown, Iowa, horses are forbidden to eat fire hydrants. That law isn't really for us as humans its for an animal who can't understand it in the first place.
Maria Shallenberger
Good question! I don't know too much about which olaws people would be complaining about, but i think there could be laws that people are unhappy about. i think that is inevitable. It's impossible to please everyone, but if ennough people are upset with a new law, it can be changed. I don't think there are any laws that infringe on my personla freedom, but maybe there are laws I am unaware of. I don't know which law Iwould change if I were in charge because right now I don't have a problem with any of them.
~Adrianna~
I think that there are way too many laws. How can some one say being 21 is ok to drink but being 20 isn't... do you really mature that much in 1 year? Doubt it. I think maybe the government should look at the past laws before making a bunch of new ones. Some of the ones they are making are just plain stupid. Most of the laws people don't even care about. The world would be crazy with out laws... but some of these laws are crazy.
Kellie
I think the US has many laws that do not make sense. Seat belt law is one I feel is against our own rights. We are in our own cars, we pay for the cars, the gas, insurance; who are they to tell us we have to wear seatbelts? I agree that children should wear them; we are then protecting them. However, protecting ourselves should be our own responsibility. I do wear my belt, and ask others to wear theirs when they are in my car, but that is my decision. If the government wants to pay for all of my belongings, they can tell me what to do with them. Darcy Cekander
I think the government has many laws that are not nessacery but are for our own good. Like Darcy said seat belts are something that will save our life but why is their a law that makes us wear one. I agree with the law but why do we have it. I don't think they take away from our own freedom because I don't know a lot of the laws. I only know the basic ones. If I knew examples I would be able to hwlp you better. sorry.
Nicole Mulrooney
Thousands of laws are just flat out ignored since there is such a plethora of them. I am not a big fan of stingy laws and ordinances that are unnecessary. Many of the laws the government passes are vital to a secure nation, but politicians need to draw the line somewhere.
If I had the power to change just one law, I would overturn Roe v. Wade. It is terrible that the U.S. would pass a law that to date has cost over 43 million American lives. It is odd that liberals focus all their energy on complaining about the 2,500 casualties of the war in Iraq. I feel terrible about the lives that have been lost in protecting our freedoms, but I also hurt for the tens of millions of innocent lives lost as a result of a formerly liberal court's monumental verdict.
-Michael Holmes
I feel that there are entirely to many laws and restraints on American people. If I could change one law it would be the speed limit on the expressway, when I have places to be doing 65 is not going to get me there in the time I need to be
Corey
Hi, Leta. I am against most laws. I think laws are created for people who can't think for themselves. I think laws promote people not to think for themselves. For me, what's moral is always a more important consideration than what's legal. The thinking required to make the right moral decision makes the person a better person. Any trained monkey can follow a law that someone else has created for it.
If I could get rid of only one law currently on the books, it would be the law that allows children to go hungry while rich people eat all day long. I'm not sure which law that is exactly, but it has something to do with capitalism; it's a law that allows people to amass huge wealth without sharing it. If I had the chance, I'd find out which law that was and abolish that one.
John W.
I dont think that there are too many laws in our society. I only say that because I dont know many of them and the ones I do know dont really effect me. I do think that people making laws probably make stupid ones because they have nothing else better to do with their time. Aaron Royse
There is one thing that I don't like and it is living todether without being married. I feel that it should be a law agaisnt that. People think that it's alright and it is not. I feel that is fornication and against God to live together without marriage. This would be one law that I would change.
Leo
I think that the laws that are out now maybe a little strange at times but the way i look at it They only make laws because someone was stupid enough too make a necesity for a new law. So yes i think that their are too many laws but they are needed and made because some stupid person caused it to be needed to be put as a law.
By:Ryan Duda
I agree with Ryan, the only reason why there are so many laws is because someone was stupid enough to do something stupid, so law makers had to make whatever action they did illegal.
I'm not sure if this quite fits under you question of what law would I change, but I think I would limit how much those "Payday Advance Loan" places can charge intrist. I'm not sure exactly how much it is off the top of my head, but I know it's a lot.
Sorry it took me so long to answer your question, and I hope it helps you out.
Pat Mahoney
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