While in the crate, Connor, Emby, Hayden, and Diego discuss many profound topics. One of these is about the making of laws, and I found it intriguing.
"'Just because the law says it, that doesn't make it true.'
'Yeah, well, just because the law says it, that doesn't make it false, either. It's only the law because a whole lot of people thought about it, and decided it made sense.'
. . . Maybe so, but the way Connor sees it, a point ought to be sharper than that. 'How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?'
'They do it all the time,' says Hayden. 'That's what a law is: educated guesses at right and wrong'" (172).
I thought this was an interesting way to view what a law is, and it was very thought-provoking. It was most stirring, because if you think about it, it's true. Laws define what is right and wrong, but how do we know for sure what is right and what is wrong? What do you think?
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