Laws, and democracy, should be evolving just like we do because our ancestors - 100s of years ago, even 10s of years ago - simply did not come up with timeless

Laws, and democracy, should be evolving just like we do because our ancestors - 100s of years ago, even 10s of years ago - simply did not come up with timeless solutions to much stuff any more than the people who wrote the bible did a couple thousand years before them. Some of the things we once defined as just we now consider to be heinous human rights violations that only occur in the worst corners of the world - slavery, inequality etc. Some laws are commonly considered out of date and failing today's society - drugs, mass-incarceration, copyright, patents, marriage.