Weakness of the law

While I agree that the law is a moral compass for people to follow, I think that it is only effective when people follow it. Although it is true that most people would follow the law to avoid running into trouble, there will also be a few with divergent agendas who prefer to do things their own way and use their rights as an excuse to exert a negative influence on the society. For example, an extremist political group might use democracy and freedom of speech to spread brazen messages which fulfill their political agendas, disregarding the law and destabilizing society in the process. The one thing law cannot ensure is that people will follow it; it cannot create stability when people disregard it. Since it is not guaranteed that everyone will follow the law, and that it takes just a few people to create instability in a society, it is inaccurate to think that the law will maintain stability as the assumption that people will follow the law does not always hold true.