Read the following passage and answer the item that follows. Your answer to this item should be based on the passage only.

"It is certain that no law, however well drafted, enforces itself; a law obeyed only where convenient is scarcely a law at all, but a suggestion. The strength of a legal order lies less in the severity written into its statutes than in the ordinary expectation, shared by most who live under it, that others will also obey."

Which among the following is the most logical and rational inference that can be made from the passage given above?