> Because good law-abiding people ... follow them with inconvenience and cost to themselves... Maybe this provides the required benefit to society and enforcem

> Because good law-abiding people ... follow them with inconvenience and cost to themselves... Maybe this provides the required benefit to society and enforcement would only increase the costs. Given that there is a heavy discretionary component to the justice system that reinforces broader power dynamics in society, these costs are likely to be borne by the have-nots rather than than the haves. There's very little benefit to society in squeezing blood from a stone. > Maybe we should retreat a little from our self-confidence and think "maybe I should follow rules even if I don't agree with them"... Perhaps it is worth obeying trifling laws for the purpose of living and letting live. But there are also a great many unjust laws. I'm not sure you're being entirely fair to your fellow citizen, here. How are people meant to have a respectful relationship with the law when some are hardly punished and some receive what amounts to summary execution? I believe the problem with our discourse today is that it has been sabotaged in small ways meant to protect the powerful in the short term, and toxicity has built up to a very dangerous degree. I don't believe we're especially less law abiding than we have been previously. That being said, there are a great many laws I would like to see enforced more rigorously. Especially in the area of white collar crime.