Their Laws Had Become Corrupted

Helaman 5:2
For as their laws and their governments were established by the voice of the people, and they who chose evil were more numerous than they who chose good, therefore they were ripening for destruction, for the laws had become corrupted.

My Thought:
Note that the act did not become right or virtuous because it became law. Rather the law had become corrupted.  There is a standard of right and wrong.  That standards is God's standard, and our laws and manner of living should be measured ultimately against the teachings of Jesus Christ and His prophets.

Real Liberty

2 Nephi 2:27

Wherefore, men are ^afree according to the ^bflesh; and ^call things are ^dgiven them which are expedient unto man. And they are free to ^echoose ^fliberty and eternal ^glife, through the great Mediator of all men, or to choose captivity and death, according to the captivity and power of the devil; for he seeketh that all men might be ^hmiserable like unto himself.

My Thought:  

Choosing liberty leads to freedom and eternal life--Choosing to follow the commandments of God.  Choosing anything less is really "to choose captivity and death."  Keeping the commandments is liberating.  I recall these words of Elder Neal A. Maxwell

Seeing through sensuality’s deceptive spin is another vital preventive. For instance, some of those who flout the seventh commandment by their immoral lifestyles are like Cain’s declaring, “I am free” (Moses 5:33), after breaking the sixth commandment by slaying Abel. Such erroneous thinking about freedom evokes Peter’s warning words: “Of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage” (2 Pet. 2:19; see also 2 Ne. 2:26–30). True, strident souls may even fake laughter amid bondage and sin, but another proverb applies: “Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness” (Prov. 14:13).