I am not aware of any reason to think that natural laws are either benevolent or malevolent toward us, and the image of a clockwork universe is familiar from classic philosophy. Science has the powerful indirect effect of improving human health and opportunity. Science makes it much easier to make good decisions, and generally gives its practitioners a social conscience. But the study of nature is morally neutral, and the business of science itself is both political and tedious. Human-made law is by itself also morally neutral.
Experience shows that genuine democracy results in the greatest human good.
From time to time, people forget why they have made laws, and keep them for their own sake, out of habit or for minority group identity. In our world, some religions have a lot of rules. You have many examples for lawful-neutral clerics in your own community. They have been wrongly described as arbitrary legalists, but this is not true. They maintain a huge law library.