A World without Criminal Law

Think for a minute that you have entered a new world, a new society.  Crime is rampant.  There is no law enforcement to help you.  You must fend for yourself.  Your town was just hit by the worst natural disaster ever.  Police are helping rebuild, and can't help you fight off crime. Contractors have a tool in one hand and a gun in the other.  They always have to look over their shoulders.  People have to be careful of dangerous people.  Looters would be roaming the street looking for anything they can find.  You will have your window one day but when you wake up the next it is gone.  Riots will break out and continue on until they get tired.

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You have to protect yourself because the police can't do anything for you, because there are no laws to keep you safe, and people doing the correct thing, said Ms. David on NPR.  Police no longer have any power because they can't stop or arrest criminals, because there are no laws that give them the power to do anything.  Society is corrupt.  People by nature are evil. It is society and the laws that help keep people in line, to make them good and keep the evil at bay.  Ethics and morals are only a side effect of law.  Law not only creates ethics and morals but dictates them too.  Because of the nature of man, if someone else has something that you want and there is nothing that can stop you and you know there will be no consequences you will take it.  That's just the nature of man.  The thing that does stop you though is the law, that is the consequence.  If it weren't for criminal law there would be no good in the world because humans are simply evil by nature.  That being said why should you or I have to be good if there are no consequences?  Who would tell me I can't kill you if I want your money?  Who would get me in trouble if I break into your house?   Nobody, because there are no laws stopping me.   But we do have laws so you don't have to worry about that.

People are scared of getting in trouble.  They always have that fear and that is what keeps people good.  By human nature people don't want to get in trouble. So if man can't get in trouble for their actions then they don't have the fear to be good.  If they don't have the fear to be good there is no reason to and they will do bad things like; looting, robbery, killing, stealing, and rape. 

NOW that doesn't seem like a very good society at all.  Aren't you glad that there are laws that will protect you, and tell you how to live.  Laws tell society how to act, and stop those that break the norm for society and threatens others in that society.  Criminal law is important to society because not only does it help you live your life it also stops bad people from doing bad things.  Now imagine another world.  A world with laws.  It is very peaceful crime is at a minimum.  You don't have to constantly be looking over you shoulder.  That's mostly the world you live in.  That is a world with criminal law!!