Rigid laws need to be made flexible to take account of circumstances.

"Laws should not be rigid or fixed. Instead, they should be flexible enough to take account of various circumstances, times, and places."

The human mind has been blessed with the ability to think without limits. The numerous subjects it can analyse and the ability to think from various aspects, dimensions, knows no bounds. This ability to think and process a million thoughts also gives birth to a chaos of ideas. These ideas could be black, white or gray and the mind has to go through this whole chaos to come up with a reliable action plan, to do what should be done. But how reliable is the mind to decide which of these actions is right to do at the individual and global level. I intend to emphasize that every non-ideal situation related to us is basically a product of a flawed thought process. Again there are roughly some 6 billion people who walk this earth and each man's chaos works in a different way. If everybody did the right thing to do always, there had been no wrongs which is obviously not the case.

Civilisation taught us to act and channelise our thoughts on mutually beneficial and constructive patterns. So we all cooperate and act in an order to safeguard each other's interests. The law is the protector of this very order and was made to enforce and regulate these practices. The law and order system we have today has been formulated, analysed and corrected over years of practical experience to safeguard common interests and prevent the order from getting out of control. We see the benefits this order and peace has brought in our lives as we have more opportunities and avenues of growth than any of our predecessors. Still we see everyday the laws being broken, and tragic events do occur in the society. For instance, we all saw the murderer of Jessica lal being punished by the law. But still we see influential people get away with serious crimes and there has been no drop in crime rate because of the strict laws. However stringent the punishment may be, people still commit the same crimes, and the extent to which a punishment is justified is again a matter of concern. A murder could be done for a lot of reasons. It could be for personal revenge, or a family dispute, or for purpose of robbery or even in self defense. In each of these cases we encounter a completely different set of affairs though the crime is the same. A murder done to safeguard yourself or your family or any innocent person is totally justified. In other cases we need to have strict punishments. Therefore the law has to be very case specific if it has to do justice in true sense.

Now we have had a history of laws being broken as long as the history of laws being enforced. There would hardly be any law that would never have been breached. Despite having a strict vigilance and law enforcement, people still dare and find ways to defy them. A crime which can be seen in different perspectives again complicates the law enforcement as it opens more avenues for the sharp minded to evade the law. The more flexible a law system will tend to become, it will inevitably become more complex, more difficult to enforce and thus easier to breach. Our path to glory is therefore in the mid of the two extremes.

The law has to be strict enough to keep it simple and sound and again flexible enough so that the innocent do not get punished either. Every aspect of the flexiblity and strictness issue boils down to the fact that the ultimate assessment of the crime is the intention behind it and the damage it brought about. This is the reason why we still have a human judge to say the last word inspite of having fixed laws. Ofcourse, we have a problem with the pace at which law matters are solved at courts, but it is again a result of increasing crime rate and for that matter, the population. Striving towards the improvement of this system, making it efficient and effective is but what we can do about this situation. To correct the small discrepancies and escapes and to learn from our experiences; these small steps will take us far. At the end of the day we must be very sure that whatever be the shape we give to our law and order system, it must ensure human safety and integrity, above all a healthy society.