Equal responsibilities
The essence of laws is concretized with vigilant enforcers and responsible abiders.
We have so many laws. These are created to avoid chaos. Oftentimes, people keep on complaining for their poor implementation or weak enforcement.
The government should...
This agency should...
That person should... They should... etc. etc.
There’s no doubt that these are sometimes helpful. Especially if such a pointing makes our officials realize their defects. However it is sometimes unfair. We have government with a responsibility to administer and execute laws but without cooperation from the people, laws would never yield order.
However, there are those localities where these observations do not necessarily apply. Stricter implementation of rules and regulations, which is obviously facilitated by strong political will of the officials and citizen cooperation, characterizes those particular areas. These could be effective panaceas for this problem. For sure, the end goals (peace and order) behind creation of laws could be achieved.
The effectiveness of laws therefore depends not only on the enforcers but on the people as well. — Aizza Gonzales, BA Political Science, University of the
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