How many laws do you think we have? Think local (your city/town, your county), state and federal. A few hundred thousand maybe? Enough to keep lawyers occupied in intensive study for 3 years in a specialty (not all laws, just laws about corporate finance or intellectual property), and even then, it’s unlikely that they’d know them all. As a regular citizen, it is your responsibility to follow all these laws… but you don’t even know 1/1000th of them!
This is one of the ways our political system is absurd. You can be arrested and jailed or fined for any number of actions that you have no clue are illegal. And it’s not like the laws are all sensible moral things like “don’t kill people”, but many are obscure things like “don’t keep cake in cookie jars” or “no sexual positions besides missionary allowed”, left over from puritanical control-freaks from centuries ago.
I think we all must be lawbreakers by now. So revel in your outlawery – just don’t be mean.
