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"The courts have established" Why not make it a crystal-clear law, so that an ordinary citizen can understand without having to dig through case law and see wh

• dragonwriter 13y ago
  > Why not make it a crystal-clear law Because its an application of existing laws, and creating a separate law for it would be much the same problem in law as excessively tight coupling is in software development. > so that an ordinary citizen can understand without having to dig through case law and see what applies to their situation. Because making the ordinary citizen have to dig through statute law isn't much different, and because unless all change to all other laws that might interact with it and have apparent conflicts that might need to be resolved by the courts stopped (which it wouldn't), the ordinary citizen would still need to dig through case law to know what it meant in practice.