The Spirit of Law

When I was a little kid, my grandfather used to tell me a story.

Once in a forest, there are wolves and goats living together. So many goats were killed by the wolves that all the animals agreed to get together and make a law to protect all the goats. Everybody who attended the meeting put forward their points. After a heated discussion with an atmosphere of democracy, a perfect law was issued. It read as follows, “Everyone has the right to freedom of life. Goats have the right to take the wolf to the court who wants to kill the goats and give the killer what he deserves.”

People say that all men are created equal; however, that is what we wish for. We are living in a society with unfairness and injustice. So we fight, we struggle, we argue, we debate and finally make the law. The only thing we can do is to make sure that everyone is equal before the law. The only thing we should hate is not the criminal but crime itself. That should be the spirit of law.

I wonder whether there was a goat taking a wolf to the court and I wonder how he could make it. In the world of nature, there are no rewards or punishments; there are consequences. It is the principle of nature; however that is far from satisfaction. What we human beings are struggling for is equal rights, equal responsibility, equal opportunity, the order and the undying hope of lives.

Law is order, and good law is good order. Good order is the foundation of everything. Law is supposed to represent the public view. No law has any strength if there is no public view to support it. No nation can develop without a system of laws supported by its people.

Law is force, and it cannot be enforced unless it is respected and supported by the people. Punishment is needed; it is justices for the unjust. Only in this way can we make the law obeyed. Without punishment and force, every law would become a dead letter.

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