I find it extremely concerning that people, especially on this platform, don't care about what the law says and choose to just hand wave it as "it doesn't apply

I find it extremely concerning that people, especially on this platform, don't care about what the law says and choose to just hand wave it as "it doesn't apply to us / they don't enforce it like that". The letter of the law is even more important than the spirit of it because it allows governments, corporations and other entities to simply say "this is what the law says" and because you are small you don't have the money/power to challenge this rendition if the spirit of the law disagrees with them. Not to mention that laws are _laws_, they are not meant to be really interpreted (it is a byproduct of having to do so to have a functioning society). It's an extremely slippery slope to not care what the law says. If we don't we'll have some dystopian laws that allow for anything quite soon.