The law wasn’t meant to be broken but these days it seems the law was broken to be made. Some laws appear to exist only after breaking them. A person can go through life normally without any police trouble and the moment he fails an attempt to end such a life which society itself has ruined and a life which has not troubled society in anyway, he’s guilty of attempted suicide. This is not an argument on what the law should be so no comments on why one can or can’t take one’s own life but where is it written in everyday life that these are the ‘do’s’ and ‘don’ts’?
We can go through life’s everyday activities cautiously and carefully and still have a lot of fun knowing the rules that are applicable in our various societies albeit jurisdictions. After all to be forewarned is to be forearmed. We can blame ourselves more if we could do away with just this one ‘had i known’ in life.
That maxim, ignorance of the law is no excuse. Does it apply to illiterates and lunatics? If the law applies to all person and prohibits murder and suicide but permits freedom of association and persons join a religion which, for example, allows the killing of leaders at the end of their tenures, shouldn’t the law be made readily available to these persons so they know their religion doesn’t surpass the law; at least in that perspective?
The law is so far from us, we wonder who it applies to. Sometimes we think armed robbers are so far away from us or that killers have no family. We think criminals are a different species. Life makes us all criminals. It’s just the applicable law that hasn’t caught hold of us and probably never will. The law is not enforceable only by the persons in suits and policemen. The little rules we know and are conversant with, we can enforce not only through prosecuting and reporting but by educating the less informed. The law is just too far from us because it seems to not save us especially when crime is so close to us in our homes, schools and at work
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