If There Were No Laws Or Rules In This World To Influence Our Behaviour, What Do You Think Our Behaviour Would Look Like?

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Humans are special being with the natural feature to possess dominion, this is to say; naturally people are born free without an ordinance to follow a specific path or a specific trait. Humans aren't preprogrammed to be a stereotypical aspect or one sided version of themselves and this includes the good and the bad side of them as well. As much as there's goodness in us, there's also a tendency for ugliness and only when there's a check that's how this "ugliness" is hidden. So what's that particular check? That's "law and order or rules". Now law and rules comes in different variables and personally this is training disciplining of oneself to be a better person, follow due process and orderliness.

When a child is born, it cannot differentiate between right or wrong. He's just an empty vessel waiting to be pruned in a direction as to where to go. So throughout his growth process before hitting maturity, his parents takes the time to prune him, teach him, show him norms, regulations, principles and rules and this helps him at a young age to determine or define what's right and what's wrong and what are necessarily important in life. Now while this child become an adult he has a choice to tilt to what he has been thought and become a better version of himself.

While he's growing up, he's exposed to other human rules and laws which will guide his coexistence between him and his fellow humans. Now you must know that this fellow humans hypothetically has undergone the same process as him and now are ready to coexist but then without the law and rules this wouldn't be possible. Laws and rules are what keeps the excesses of people in check but it isn't even the laws and rules itself. It's the fear of the consequences of not obeying laws and rules that actually what makes people obey law and rules. Although a human being might naturally have the disposition to obey laws and rules because they feel it's right but most of the time fear is what makes people obey laws and rules and imagine if that was taken away.


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How Would The Human Behaviour And Attitude Be Like Without Laws and Rules?


There would be a continuous existence of impunity and this might cut the human race short. Our attitude and behaviour is often guided by the principles which we've been exposed to. For example, morally it's wrong to kill someone and according to rules guiding constitutions and humanity there are punishments for doing so and even if people do not heed to their conscience then they'll fear to commit the crime of murder because of the consequence or the punishment. This would be the exact opposite if humans don't have laws and order.

There will be decadence to due process, no one would find anything wrong with doing the wrong things, no one would feel there's the need to do the right thing and if there wasn't law and rules, we might as well not recognise the essence of "right and wrong" or how it might tend to Influence our character. Without rules and laws we might not even know the essence of love and lets me explain why; having responsibilities is like a rule, everyone on earth grows into having responsibilities and if the was not laws guiding this responsibilities then we might find not reasons to show commitment to those we owe responsibility either to our children or parent. A lawless universe will influence us rather negatively and take away our positive values which we owe one another as humans and like I said earlier this might mean the end of humanity.




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My country is the closest thing to an established Anarchy that you could find anywhere in the world, we've lost all institutionality and laws are primarily broken by the authorities. Impunity is extremely high across the board here for every crime that you can think of, but still society naturally finds a way to moderate itself, even though security forces and public administration are completely hijacked by thugs and corrupt officials.

The lowest echelons of our society are concentrated in slums, and by far the worst environments in here are prisons. I say "lowest" only because these are the places most prone to chaos, darkness and violence, and yet, even in those contexts, people manage to find and establish crude codes of conduct that regulate behavior. It's a survival mechanism, we instinctively know that there must be some sort of order in a community for it to function at all.

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Irrespective of every narrative law and order must be present so that there can be a certain kind of functionability to the human society at large. Thanks for the brilliant comment

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Thank you for your well-thought and inspiring post, man!

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A great response @drrune, I wish you had answered this question and shared your views xxx

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Thank you! I think I might write something about that after all, I didn't realize it was a challenge-like question until I saw your own post!

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I completely agree, @drrune. The country where I live (Mexico) is also half-way to what you described: lots of impunity, and the rich and powerful get away with anything. As for the rest of society, it's a coin-toss: you may be charged for something you haven't committed, not charged for things you have committed, and anything in between. Still, what I noticed is that in general people tend to follow "rules of decency" which may not even be written down. Waiting in line instead of pushing forward is one of these things. Sure, there are always exceptions, but they only verify the norm.

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Yeah. I don't subscribe to the idea that human beings naturally devolve toward shadow and destruction if left unchecked. What I've learned and observed, is that everyone, even the thuggiest thug, yearns for peace and freedom. Some people mix things up because of their wiring, upbringing and stuff, but most of us will respond to a basic code of accountability and respect.

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Thank you for your input in this question, I do believe though that if the current rules and laws fell away that we would live by our own and return to a way that is more in harmony with our environment. It would take a while though as so many would need to adjust to this. xx

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of course I believe that the present rules guiding the human society can be flawed in many ways and obviously needs a certain kind of rejuvenation in all aspect but then without order and law irrespective of how flawed it is can still take away the functionability of the society. I totally believe the next generation to come will be totally different. Maybe freer laws but not too free

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