Laws 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. Speed limits and traffic laws exist so that we drive in a safe manner. Your reason to obey the one-way sign is independent of sanctions or legitimacy — it's simply to coordinate with people.” But law also works expressively by signaling information about risk or public attitudes that causes people to update their behavior. “Either of these could change behavior,” McAdams said. Law can provide justice to the victims and punish those who are responsible for unlawful actions. In courts, a law is used to settle conflicts among the people. The main function of law is to ensure all-round development of people by providing security, peace, and protection.
