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I call BS. We already have about 100 times more laws than we have the capacity to prosecute so it's just noise. We already have laws about malicious communicati

I call BS. We already have about 100 times more laws than we have the capacity to prosecute so it's just noise. We already have laws about malicious communications but yet social media is still swimming with incredibly malicious content. Insulate Britain had a number of injunctions taken against them to not block main roads and when they do, they get arrested - 1 of them saying they had been arrested 11 times. Now regardless of whether you agree with them or not, the enforcement of these headline grabbers is terrible. Once we have enough police enforcing things consistently and as strictly as necessary then I will worry about a dystopia, until then, it's just more attempts to win votes and is just noise.

batch12 5y ago
On the flip side, the more laws you have, the more impossible it is to not violate those laws. Then it's easier to arrest someone you just don't like.
- cute_boi 5y ago
  I think this is how dictatorship works. Make subjective laws and arrest anyone who stands in your way? Looks like freedom is fading away slowly.
apatters 5y ago
We now have so many laws that my metric for assessing the relevance of any law has become - "how many people have been prosecuted under this law" Statistically I doubt I will be the first.
Zpalmtree 5y ago
Inconsistent application of unjust laws is maybe even worse than them being applied to everyone, now you have a great reason to discount the people being abused if they don't agree with your politics.
- lbriner 5y ago
  Inconsistency is terrible regardless of how high-quality the law is. Law is about setting boundaries but if you see everyone else breaking a law and then you get prosecuted for breaking it yourself, you don't create anything except resentment. I think poorly written and inconsistently applied laws is a big part of why the UK has become so selfish. Easier just to worry about me and mine rather than what I think society wants.
  - zarzavat 5y ago
    > I think poorly written and inconsistently applied laws is a big part of why the UK has become so selfish It's much deeper than that. The UK's national identity is tied up in things that no longer exist: the British Empire and WW2. That was the peak, and everything since has been a decline. People have become selfish because the British nation has evaporated. It barely exists. There is no sense of being compatriots, because there is nothing to be compatriots of.

batch12 5y ago

On the flip side, the more laws you have, the more impossible it is to not violate those laws. Then it's easier to arrest someone you just don't like.

cute_boi 5y ago
I think this is how dictatorship works. Make subjective laws and arrest anyone who stands in your way? Looks like freedom is fading away slowly.

apatters 5y ago

We now have so many laws that my metric for assessing the relevance of any law has become - "how many people have been prosecuted under this law" Statistically I doubt I will be the first.

Zpalmtree 5y ago

Inconsistent application of unjust laws is maybe even worse than them being applied to everyone, now you have a great reason to discount the people being abused if they don't agree with your politics.

lbriner 5y ago
Inconsistency is terrible regardless of how high-quality the law is. Law is about setting boundaries but if you see everyone else breaking a law and then you get prosecuted for breaking it yourself, you don't create anything except resentment. I think poorly written and inconsistently applied laws is a big part of why the UK has become so selfish. Easier just to worry about me and mine rather than what I think society wants.
- zarzavat 5y ago
  > I think poorly written and inconsistently applied laws is a big part of why the UK has become so selfish It's much deeper than that. The UK's national identity is tied up in things that no longer exist: the British Empire and WW2. That was the peak, and everything since has been a decline. People have become selfish because the British nation has evaporated. It barely exists. There is no sense of being compatriots, because there is nothing to be compatriots of.