Depends, if the alternative is those laws are changed or removed from the statute books, their existence counterproductive for sure. If the alternative is all

Depends, if the alternative is those laws are changed or removed from the statute books, their existence counterproductive for sure. If the alternative is all the bad laws society regularly bends or ignores outright (suggesting there’s little or no democratic support for them) start being aggressively enforced, I’ll take never enforced every time. In many societies there’s plenty of the latter.