> The real issue is the lack of soft unwritten societal rules that exists in most other countries, close, but i think it's the other way around. Those soft ru

> The real issue is the lack of soft unwritten societal rules that exists in most other countries, close, but i think it's the other way around. Those soft rules do exist, but they're regionally scoped to about the size of the median european country. We just have several dozen such regions. The "codify everything" impulse can arise from things like interstate/inter-region commerce alone.