We are taught to obey the law, but this simplistic command is not nearly comprehensive or vetted enough, for us to thereby blindly follow, for the law as written and enforced by the societies that make up humankind often has its own purposes which can be in serious conflict with what the law should and ought to be. For instance, all of us understand, that there have been laws, such as the law that permitted human beings to own other human beings, and to treat them as property, which though law, was not good or fair law. So too, when the law as implemented is unfairly applied so that some must suffer the ill effects of that law; whereas, others are positioned to be above the law, this is not good or fair law, either. This thus signifies that for any law to be truly correct, it must adhere to core principles that are consistent, fair, ethical, and that together serve the highest good purpose, possible.
Indeed, the law as written and implemented must be enlightened enough to recognize that human beings not only have a strong tendency to be flawed in one way or another but to also be corrupt, especially in their desire to see that the law is enforced against certain people or principalities in a way and manner that punishes those that they do not like or that they don’t respect their beliefs -- rather than recognizing that the law must be in harmony with natural law, which is beyond and above the vicissitudes of humankind.
To believe that the law should reflect or imitate what is perceived to be the natural order of human tendencies, as opposed to the law reflecting or imitating what human beings are supposed to be about, is a mistake because to believe that, in essence, the best law is a law that mirrors what has occurred, thereby signifying that an eye for an eye, is what should be enforced upon the disobedient members of society, without exception, or nuance, is to misunderstand what law should be about fundamentally. Rather, the correct purpose of the law is to hold humankind to a higher standard than like-for-like or to impress punishment without a pathway for reformation -- for the correct purpose of the law is to overcome humankind’s frailties and mistakes, by molding human nature into what it is supposed to be, which is to be in harmony with the ethical standards which represents humankind interacting with one another at its best.
Each of us is a special creation of God, and should not be seen as being just some sort of advanced animal, and nothing more. So then, the purpose of our free will that we have been bestowed with is to use this gift in its proper way, which is to rise above human frailties and bad tendencies to become what we were meant to be, which is moral agents of good, thereby signifying that the correct purpose of the law is to correct our mistaken selves, to reflect that as equal creations, we are all equally entitled to the same unalienable rights, that we are meant to honor by our actions, above all.