response post - " LawsLinks to an external site. protect our general safety, and ensure our rights as citizens against abuses by other people, by organizations, and by the government itself. We have laws to help provide for our general safety. Laws about food safety. At the state and local level, health departments have guidelines that restaurants follow for how to store and prepare food in a healthy manner, so that diners won't get sick. At the national level, the Department of Agriculture and other federal agencies inspect food production plants to be sure that the food that shows up in your supermarket is safe to eat." I believe there is not way to exist without law. Many of the programs and agencies we know about and rely on were created because they not in place before. Upton Sinclair published the book The Jungle in 1906 about how meat was packaged and this lead to the Food and Drug Administration being created. This has helped to make sure the Americans do not get sick and factories are held accountable for the conditions of workers how the food is handled. Without provisions or someone watching things would go back to people working in unsafe and unhealthy conditions. Laws are put in place to protect people and make sure everyone is treated fairly. Without law we would go back to a time where people were treated by different standards and there would not be anything anyone could do because there would be nothing in place to set a precedent