Laws Don't Work
A: Oh, yes, there is. Haven't you ever heard of innocent people sentenced to jail or even death? Of how many cases like this have you heard nothing? What kind of justice are we talking about if murderers walk the streets free and protected by law or even govern states — look at Israel, US and Russia? Look at any state you wish: some citizens judge with mantles on; others judge without. What is the difference? You are sentenced to a monthly fine: taxes. If you don't pay for every step you take, wait and see. So, if some criminals are allowed to stay free and go on robbing people, what kind of justice is it? Is it a double-standard justice? Or justice that just can't cope with its purpose?
A: First, these people are in no way different from you. They have the same head and the same keypoints in biography: birth, parents, school, etc. They have no skill that you could lack. They are humans like you, with the same scales to measure good and bad against the same Self. You have the same toolkit.
Second. We can improve our laws infinitely by canceling them. Right: if we don't want anyone to trespass any human law or be accidentally punished, we should undo them all. With all our legal institutions, of course. It sounds dreadful, but it is not. We all know that lawyers are not impartial, that judges can be bought, but believe that system itself is still good. Doesn't it sound like "yolk is addle, white is addle, but the egg itself is good"? There's nothing to lose: the system is obviously defunct, its glory lingering only in Hollywood products. Don't you see that laws, courts and police are serving to protect the existing order, which suits those who pass laws? People who pass a law are by definition above it. Likewise, when you choose tomatoes to buy, you are not one of them.
A: A perfect point! Ask someone to tie you up, shove a gag up your mouth and fold your eyes. Done? Now you are completely free to do anything you can. Not anything you can think of, but anything you can. There is no difference between allowing and forbidding as long as someone else decides for you. When you do something allowed by law, think that tomorrow it can be prohibited by a different law. Again, you are forced to play other people's game according to their rules, even though these people are as mortal and as human as yourself. Freedom and justice are not in allowing everything, but in the absence of allowing institutions. Every permission implies prohibition.
A: The presence of head on each human's shoulders imposes some responsibility on each of us. There is nobody in the entire universe who will think instead of me. To learn to decide for myself as sincerely and fearlessly as possible is my only true purpose in life. When I see that something is wrong, why should I say that it is right? When you see a house set on fire won't you call firemen? As a regular person, I am on the receiving end of the laws, and I receive way too much nonsense. It's my right to agree or disagree with anything in the world. You have this right, too.
As for canceling laws — Earth is my home. Unfortunately, it is crushed into millions of rooms each ruled by a billion of specific laws. I see no reason for this.
When you notice broken things around the house, don't you replace them with new ones or at least try to repair? These things may have been quite handy once, yet they are not anymore. They occupy space, get in the way and gather dust. The human laws are just that. Either because they became hypocritical, or because they were initially planned this way, they just don't work, and to garbage they go. In short, our laws are:
A: First, as you see, laws don't teach anything. People keep stealing, cheating and killing just the same. Second, only laws designed by humans like you and me should be abolished. Basic rules of coexistence are laid out in our 'sacred' books. Take Exodus (Shemot), 20. I mean the set of 10 rules familiar to everyone and therefore unnoticed. Don't kill, don't steal and so on. On the other hand, if you feel urge to kill and steal, do so, but be prepared to reap the consequences: somebody can equally want to kill or rob you. Our governments think exactly this way: they know they are doing something ugly towards the population, so they protect themselves with police and laws. You are not allowed to pass your own laws. This is because they imagine that you act and think precisely like them. That you might want to have your own oppression tools, for example.
Most probably, laws formulated as recommendations will catch much more attention and let upcoming humans ask more questions. A person who seeks answers sincerely is too busy to break any regulation. If, on the other hand he spends her life observing other people's unexplained and contradictory rules, he might look for a twisted kind of entertainment.
Important notice:
There is neither good nor bad. There are only things that you or I (dis)like personally. Following double-standard regulations or enforcing third-party laws on neighbors only deforms humans and does not work, as we can witness. Each person arrives at his own principles of living. Some do it sooner, some later. No court in the world can influence evolution.
A: First of all, it is not the society, but a single human with a name and address who executes the sentence. The society savors the report along with its morning coffee.
Second, a society so intolerable to murder most definitely cannot allow itself to kill. It is not a prohibition; the society itself cannot bear such hypocrisy. Whatever solemn words we pronounce about condign retaliation, capital punishment is a good old murder. Does it mean that some people are allowed to kill, and some are not?
A: Without laws, nothing will worsen. Those who believe they need to steal, swindle or kill, will do what they do today. Those who don't, will live the way they do as well. But this life will contain far less hypocrisy. Cowards, for example, will commit less crimes.
Additionally, why do you think that some people can judge others? Yes, in the proper sense of the phrase: who is a man to issue a sentence to his kin? We do not know how to answer the first part of the question, let alone the whole. How can a mere mortal like me know what has happened in the world when one human robbed or killed another? There is one sure thing: now a victim is unable to do something that s/he was planning to do. And the universe is created and maintained equally by things that happen and those which do not.
Another reason: Judge not lest you be judged. In the strictest possible meaning. Why not hang this slogan in every courtroom in the world?
A: If he managed to escape whatever you or anyone else had in store for him, so be it. It is fair because it already happened, in spite of all your efforts. Admit that you lost this round. If this person did something really unacceptable in your opinion, and you are vindictive, do whatever you please unto him. Though I would recommend to think about WHY something unpleasant was caused to you, not WHO caused it. Will you beat up or strangle a traffic jam that holds you back? It just happens, like rain or birthday. If someone hits you with a stick, there is no point in hitting the stick in return. And every 'bad' guy who hurts you is exactly a stick in your fate's hands. There is no point in hitting the stick — instead, conquer your fate by changing your attitudes. Note that people like Bill Gates or Madonna don't get caught in traffic jams. Perhaps, they even don't get bitten by mosquitoes. That's because they are concerned with different things, not the other way round.
Of course, when 'bad' guys are mentioned, it is only in regard to your immediate personal involvement. If some other person suffers, it is not your business — go on with your own fate. Take care of the things happening to you, and let others guess what is happening to them.
There is no such thing as an abstract 'bad' guy hanging around — each of them serves to draw your attention to something. They are not roaming the land for nothing: they have purpose. If you feel guilty, if you sense that you did something that should not have been done, or remained idle when you had to do something, be sure that somewhere in the world your personal 'bad' guy is born. When you feel fine, when you know what and why you are doing, then you have no reason to be hurt. Pain is designed to help us right our wrongs.