Why Fear Laws When You Can Make Them Your Friend? 

It is a universal truth that human civilization always needs a ruler. Without a ruler, no civilization can exist. Even the greatest civilization breaks, when the ruler becomes weak. The human beings had been ruled by every possible being in the past. They have been ruled by kings, queens, dictators, Bishops, Priests, Prophets, dacoits, thugs, communists or elected representatives. Yet all the rulers had been human beings whom we could know and identify.

The modern world is ruled by Laws instead of human beings. Most civilized nations take pride in claiming that they have the rule of law instead of the rule of any individual. Laws have become so supreme that even the real rulers like Presidents and Prime Ministers are supposed to be subordinate to it. Thomas Fuller, an English churchman and historian rightly expressed the ethos of rule of law in the following words

"Be you ever so high, the law is above you".

Law is considered to be impersonal as it can be written in words and codified in the law books. It gives a feeling to the citizen that everyone is equal before the law, be it the President/ Prime Minister of a country or an ordinary person. Good people respect laws as they believe that the laws are made for the benefit of the society while the criminals break the laws to make fortune for themselves.

Yet everyone suffers in the hands of law which cannot be seen or heard. Laws have become like a prison that is suffocating the modern man. There is hardly any act of joy or happiness which is not prohibited by one law or other. Hence the law abiders lose happiness as they have nothing to enjoy by following the law while the law breakers lose happiness since they always fear that the long hand of laws can catch them and punish them.