Laws where I live (in Western Europe) are arguably just guidelines anyway, it is always up to courts to make final judgement on any individual matter and the la

Laws where I live (in Western Europe) are arguably just guidelines anyway, it is always up to courts to make final judgement on any individual matter and the laws are written fuzzily enough that businesses trying to masquerade as friends helping eachother can be fined, and that friends can help eachother as much as they want and not have to worry about taxes. I think people in general make too much of the laws. Laws are just a formalization of the actual culture in place, and neither replace nor create culture in themselves. The courts are made up of people too, as are the police, etc etc. The problem starts when you remove the "people" aspect of a judicial system, and it becomes paragraph-riding[1] tyranny. Or when people themselves are bad, when the courts are bad it doesn't matter if you had the best judicial system in the world. It would still be bad. [1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/paragrafryttare https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/paragrafryttare, a word to describe someone who relies on texts and only texts, often to the point of ridiculousness and because they have something to gain out of only relying on the text. Often in terms of the judicial system.