There was this story I read up at
the MSNBC website few days ago about Taylor Sauer, 18, an intelligent high
school graduate who met her untimely death when she ran into a truck while
messaging a pal on facebook as she drove. It was discovered later that Taylor
posted on facebook every 90 seconds while driving. Since then, the parents Clay
and Shauna Sauer still grieving over the Jan. 12 2012 incident have become
lobbyist in their home state Idaho (U.S) urging the state legislature to pass a
law banning texting or facebooking while driving. The father said “I think
every state should have the texting ban law, it might not make changes right
now, but for the young generations, it will be an educational tool, just like
the seat belt law”.
From the background of this story, we see a
law (like the law banning texting/facebooking while driving) not as anything
evil but as a necessary good to prevent a potential danger. This means that law
givers do not give or make laws for punishment or to deprive people of comfort
but to ensure people’s safety and general well-being.
In the first reading, we see the Ten
Commandments, an important law that binds all Christians
