Too many Laws!

Originally posted by aaron
There are way too many laws in this world nowadays. Most of the laws are not needed. They are already stated in just other words. But then people try to find some legal flaw in the system to get around so another law is created (which most aren't even enforced). They keep making laws without thinking about how to enforce it. Get rid of half the laws and see if they can at least enforce those. If they can then maybe add another one.

Another thing is that a lot of the laws made only affect those that wouldn't do it anyways. For instance, the want to make more laws against guns which will do nothing expect limit those that are already responsible and mature. Those that aren't do go to the local sports store to get a gun to kill someone. They get it illegaly. Are government needs to think. It makes rules without thinking about it.

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Exactly.  Government has become a bloated, power hungry, corruption ridden control machine.  It needs to be shrunk to an appropriate size, or ended.

oh. and read my signature.

I don't really care how may laws are made.

It is amazing that they make up so many law when they've already got ten law that cover everything. Even if the infidels didn't pay attention to the first four, or five, the next five, or six, would cover every crime they could think of. They don't need lawmakers, they need judges. It's even stranger when you see those same people who make laws trying to remove the Ten Commandments from every public place in society.

When you look at most of the laws they now have, and they have hundreds of thousand of them, most of them have to do with protecting their money. That just goes to show you where their values are and explains the current moralless state of much of society.

Surprisingly, John MacNeil, the Ten Commandments are not part of the law of the USA. While they may be the laws of your heart (and for Christians I have a hard time understanding why 10 OT laws are more important than the 2 that Christ has given us--Love God with all that you are and your neighbor as yourself--these two cover everything in my opinion), they do not govern our land. It would be more appropriate for courtrooms to have plaques and monuments of the Constitution--the true law of the land in the US.

I'd like to know where you got your information that most of our laws have to do with protecting money and monied interests. That wouldn't be a simple assertion with no basis in fact, would it? Without facts, the rest of your statement doesn't follow.

Anyway, I think that people should take more responsibility for themselves and their actions--then we wouldn't need as many laws. I also think that we should have more support for law enforcement and the judicial system, so that justice can be served. Some situations do change, and our government should be able to make laws affecting the changes in our lives.

--tibac

Um, yes the Ten Commandments surely address the regulations of testing and approving and producing medicine..
I am sure, the ten Commandments address the question of employee abuse and prevention thereof, somehow they must, becaus eyou say so.
Perhaps you could read out of the Ten Commandments the proper regulations and procedures, that must be held to when building something. The transportation of hazardous goods and definition of them is surely in the Ten Commandments somewhere, I just can´t find it. Perhaps you can enlighten me.

If countries like America would use the Bible including the Ten Commandments as their source of laws, as the Middle Eastern countries do with the Qur'an, all this non sense and confusion in laws would not have happend. But I guess the Lord did not allow that to happen because America changes its laws all the time cuz they are not happy, so they would have probably tried to change the Bible. Who knows...Yet people who want to turn their backs away from what God gave us and try to make man made rules will dig their grave of confusion deeper and deeper. Its time to come back to the laws given to us from the Lord. Cause thats all we need.

God bless

a4c

"If countries like America would use the Bible including the Ten Commandments as their source of laws, as the Middle Eastern countries do with the Qur'an, all this non sense and confusion in laws would not have happend."

Yes it would have. It would be terrible. If the bible was used all the laws would be open to interpretation. They never would catch any criminals.

The system of laws that we have now supports your ability and right to use the computer that you use, and to live the way that you do. Everything is interconnected, EVERYTHING, and knocking out chunks of legal code would knock out chunks of society.

I still miss the regulations about building houses, cars, producing medicine, developing medicine, transporting hazardous material and so on.
The Ten Commandments are fine, but the world is a lot more complex than 2000 years ago. Just to use the Ten Commandments would be pure chaos.

The excess of laws and the unreal complexity of "legalese" is not a direct fault of the government, but rather lawyers and special interest groups. Without lawyers finding obscure loopholes in every law to get guilty people off on technicalities, Statute law would not have to be so complex to cover every possibility. Without special interest groups looking to protect every grain of soil or every combination of ethnic genealogy on the planet, protective law would not have to be so complex. Without greedy citizens looking for a reason to sue and get their big payday for free, business law would not have to be so complex to protect every business.

To throw a blanket of blame on the government for the complexity and ridiculous amount of laws is incorrect, they are mostly trying to appease the citizens, and protect them at the same time. I am in no way saying the government is blameless, after all, I work for them and some of our procedural jargon necessary to get anything done is asinine. I'm just saying it's not one group's fault.

Philip K. Howard has an excellent book called "The Death of Common Sense" that hits on this very topic. It is a great eye opener as to the complete waste of time, money, and brain cells as a result of law writing.

Originally posted by Dewjunkie
Philip K. Howard has an excellent book called "The Death of Common Sense" that hits on this very topic. It is a great eye opener as to the complete waste of time, money, and brain cells as a result of law writing.

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That sounds like it might be an intersting read, but unfortunately "common sense" differs from person to person.

For example, to me, it only makes sense to allow any two grown persons to marry, despite their sexual orientation, but I promise you that there are others here, that for whatever reason, would fight tooth and nail any law that allowed gay people to marry (even though it really isn't any of their business who someone else has chosen to love).

Strange no?

Well, Starscream, the book does a fairly good job of citing only examples that intelligent people; regardless of their political affiliation or personal agenda, would find pretty alarming. The book focuses on the problem of writing more law to cover the previous law, and does so without political slant.

About laws...
some are neccessary, some are totally not.

CAN YOU SAY NEW WORLD ORDER! THERE JUST TAKING OUR FREEDOM TO GET US READY , WHY DO YOU THINK WHEN THERE IS A SHOOTING AT SCHOOL THEY ALL JUMP ON GUN CONTROLL. THEY WANT US UN ARMED. WHAT WE NEED IS TO GET RID OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THEY TEACH US WE ARE A MISTAKE,NOTHING BUT ANIMAL. AND THEY WONDER WHEY PEOPLE ACT LIKE THAT. IF THERE IS NO GOD THEN WHY NOT KILL PEOPLE. BECAUSE THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS WRIGHT AND WRONG . WITH OUT GOD THERE ARE NO RULES.GOD GAVE US RULES TO LIVE BY FOR A REASON,AND NO WE KNOW WHAT THAT REASON IS, SO WE WOULD NOT BE WHERE WE ARE TO DAY.