THE
BEAUTY OF LAW
The law is
an ass…she hollered
terrifically. The rays of her shout went straight into my tympanic membrane. Oh
my God!!! Headache is already trespassing into the domicile of my temple of
honour. This is nothing but nuisance and she must pay for this. Is there any
one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the
maxim of obeying and seeing the beauty in the law is such. I have come to
realise that the law abiding person has the habit of doing the things the
violators of law don't like to do. They don't like doing them either
necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their
purpose.
The science
of law for those who do not know is like that of medicine in one respect that
is far more easy to point out what will do harm than what will do good. Even
though morality cannot be legislated, but behaviour can be regulated. The law
may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. Wherever law
ends, tyranny begins. No wonder God started with law and am sure HE would also
end with law. Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful,
simpler or more direct than does GOD, because in HIS inventions, nothing is
lacking and nothing is superfluous because they all contain elements of law. What exactly the law is I cannot say; all I
know is that it exists and it becomes available when a man is in that state of
mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to
quit until he finds it. It guides and directs is thinking and he would never
suffer a wrong without remedy. People are people; through other people, we
constantly seek confirmation of our own existence by how we relate to others. The
inability to obey laws is what blocks peace and blocked peace is the reason for
blighted dreams. The law set us equal.
Though it
has been well argued that we live in an age of impossible contradictions where
majority does not decides what is wrong neither do they decide what is right
but their conscience does. Then, I think it should also be noted that the law
gives a hope for redemption even when we fail to obey it strictly. We live in a
wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to
the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open and
make the law our guidance. How far you go in life depends on how we obey the
law, our being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic
with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in our
life we will have pass through all these.
The disobedience
of law permeates every facet of our society and no one I say is immune from it.
This unethical practice agitates me. It is a sad fact that every nooks and
crannies has become a cesspool of lawlessness. Some people violate the
provisions of our law with impunity and they are still red carpeted upon their
crimes while others are idolised. When they are quizzed on why they’ve violated
the golden rules, they give excuses that are found wanton or they say that
their act was caused by an improbable concatenation of circumstances which only
occur to people of their own class. This self importance has deluded them for
so long that they always display the shallowness of their knowledge at every
forum. They forgot so soon that class is not about your personality, wealth nor
affluence but class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being
cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is
self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with
having proved you can meet life. The law makers are the law breakers…what a society!!!
I would remind you that disobedience of the law in the defense of liberty is no
vice and that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. Those that
obey the law are the men with swish lifestyle. They do not have a narrow view
of their faith.
Although
some people might have rightly argued that the law is harsh at times and that
it is not easy to follow the law. The question that comes to my mind on this
basic assertion is whether or not the law is harsh as posited. I must say as a matter
of priority that a difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the
conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to
love, a goal to achieve. Endurance in the obedience of the supposed harsh law
covers all these. The law at times sleep but it never dies. The people in power
have no political will to implement the law. The major problem is that we keep
making laws that are neither obeyed nor implemented.
We are all
moving towards what the philosophers have identified as nihilism, in which its
advocates disavow all institutions. They don’t believe in law and due process.
I wonder if many of us are not close nihilists. When you don’t obey the law and
breach protocol all for personal gain and you disdain institutions. You are a
nihilist, if you don’t know. The best way to avoid this is to Live
with law. Obey the law. Listen to the law. Practice the law. Choose with no
regret. Continue to appreciate your laws. Do what the law says. Live as if this
is all there is. I leave you with a mind full of hope because fools look to
tomorrow; wise men use tonight. This is the law that guides the successful mind.
Thanks
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