When the state passes bad laws -- laws that the majority of the populace are surely going to circumvent, or laws that require absolute tyranny to strictly enfor

When the state passes bad laws -- laws that the majority of the populace are surely going to circumvent, or laws that require absolute tyranny to strictly enforce -- the inevitable result is that people come to treat the law itself with disrespect or revulsion. The idea that one should be law-abiding as an ethical rule goes right out the window. The concept of the law is debased. There are very few things that do more harm to society.