Hello that was a good read. This is a interesting question but for me has a very simple answer. Laws have to be looked at as concrete. Laws in general are need to help form a society. If your group of people are big enough to need any form of Government or leadership body they are going to set some rules and if they are not followed and nothing happens they they won't form the society that the group is trying to form. No this doesn't mean that i think all laws are good or that all punishments are correct. Say running that red light. That was a clear case of breaking a law but the goal of that law is to avoid people getting hurt in traffic accidents so should the punishment really be to pay a lot of money? That is where I start to disagree with how we do things. I real feel public service should be used a lot more as a punishment than money. A fine mean nothing to a rich man and everything to a poor man. Time spent helping your community would be equal teach a lesson and help the community. I really feel that monetary punishment should be used much less. We teach our children when they do something wrong but when we grow up we stop thinking we have things to learn.