Laws are neither complete nor free of contradictions, and they don't have to. They are the result of a consensus among members of society that has grown over ce

Laws are neither complete nor free of contradictions, and they don't have to. They are the result of a consensus among members of society that has grown over centuries. Democracy is significantly based on trust, transparency and comprehensibility. Legislation is subject to the permanent challenge of finding a balance between regulatory density and manageability. And even if it were socially feasible to rewrite all existing laws, to formalize them, and to massively increase the density of rules: the set of rules will always remain discrete, and it is a naïve assumption to want to fully capture the continuity of human action with a discrete set of rules; there will always remain an unspecified residue that requires human judgment. Striving for a perfect system fails merely because there is no universally accepted definition of a perfect system; and societies in which an attempt was made to realize the utopia of a perfect system were usually totalitarian or became totalitarian in a short time.