/lit/ - Literature

>"If therefore, it is wished to avoid disharmony, dullness and oppression in all social (and literary) contexts, each problem must be regarded as unique, to be settled by right choice based on instinctive good principle, not by reference to a code or summary of precedents.... Positive right choosing on moral principle must supersede negative respect for the Law which, though backed by force, has grown so hopelessly inflated and complex that not even a trained lawyer can hope to be conversant with more than a single branch of it."
- Robert Graves

>"As soon as the particular effects are foreseen at the time a law is made, it ceases to be a mere instrument used by the people and becomes instead an instrument used by the lawgiver upon the people and for his own ends."
- Friedrich Hayek

Does the inherent conflict between nature of law and the nature of human or social problems make law more, or less, effective? Is law the best method of guaranteeing justice? Do social structures and conditions affect the need/lack of need for law, or is its conflict with human nature universal?