"of necessity, most laws are broad and vague" What necessity drives us to such laws? Perhaps the prison operator industry considers such laws to be a necessit

"of necessity, most laws are broad and vague" What necessity drives us to such laws? Perhaps the prison operator industry considers such laws to be a necessity, or maybe the police officers' unions, but in what way does our society need laws that are so broad that nobody knows whether or not they are actually following them? How about we make laws as narrow as possible, just enough to cover heinous crimes, and let people live their lives? Nobody should be confused about whether or not they are following the law. Laws should be clear, and should not require years of education and decades of experience to understand. What would be wrong with that? Are you worried that creepy people you do not like will not be arrested because they found a path through the law that allowed them to be creepy without being criminal? Why should that be worrisome? Such people are common in the financial world, and the rate of clinical psychopathy is higher amongst corporate executives than among the general population -- why do you think corporate bosses have teams of lawyers helping to guide them through business decisions? Why shouldn't ordinary people be able to say with certainty, "This action will not get me arrested?" The problem with having laws as broad as we have now is that anyone who is different becomes a victim. The government does not just go around selecting random people to prosecute, despite having the legal power to do so. Instead, the government has a weapon that can be used to keep the population in line. Dare to speak up, dare to take a stand against those in power, and you become a target. It happens over and over again: whenever someone uses their skills in a way that does not fit the neat model of "get a job or start a business" they become a target, and the moment they try to take on the system or fix the problems we have, the hammer strikes and strikes hard.