At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. - Aristotle

How safe can you be without the law? If you can imagine what happens to the tubber of yam kept under a goat's watch, that's how safe you are without the law. The only guarantee that you will not wake up tomorrow and discover that all you have laboured for in life has been forcefully taken over by another person is the law. The only assurance that you have not been wasting your entire effort, time and resources in pursuit of a cause is the law. If your life will not be snuffed out at the wimps of another, the shield of law must be respected. Any society declared lawless is one without guarantees, predictability or any iota of hope for peaceful existence. The inevitable alternative to law is anarchy. Even the most war ravaged society still has the smoldering wick of law at work called war crimes. Hence, law is never totally abolished during war. If such ever happens, it will dawn on us all that indeed, without law, man is the worst being ever to grace this planet.

As an individual, you are either advancing with the aid of the law or against the law. Each transaction you are engaged in is either lawful or unlawful. For every action you take, you are either law abiding or braking the law. The reality of these inevitable extremes escape most of us and leave us extremely vulnerable to those witty fellows who have perfected the act and art of manipulating the law to their advantage. We are often confused when we see the very things we did with a clean conscience but in total ignorance of the law turn around to work against us. A man who trusts his friend absolutely and purchases a piece of land from this trusted friend wakes up some years later to realize that he totally wasted his money because he failed to embark on the legal requirements for verifying and establishing his ownership over the said piece of land. Even when he resorts to the court for help, the hopelessness of the situation is only amplified. Such is the dilemma of law.

The court has grown to become the picture of law that most people can associate with. Hence, the only time people think the law is at work is when they are, often, compelled by events, to resort to the court for one reason or the other. We often forget that the courts are only part of the whole legal system of which we are actively part of, advertently or inadvertently.

At last, only those who have learnt how to maximize the law benefit from the law. Chances are that the richest men are those who either mastered the use of the law or those who broke all the laws. Maybe, the successful thief is the one who knows how to evade the law by using the same law. In the final analysis, only the law fortified is secured in the society.

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