Equating popularity with validity is a logical fallacy. Sticking my face in a steaming pile of human shit would be the most popular feature of forced captivity

Equating popularity with validity is a logical fallacy. Sticking my face in a steaming pile of human shit would be the most popular feature of forced captivity if my captors offered only one other option of molten lead. Laws and regulations exist because there is an 'elite' who make them, they affect us because the elite have an army of muscle men called the police who threaten our liberty for non-compliance. This is easily, formally provable. The intentions of the elite are murky and decidedly unprovable - how many NSAs do we need to create before people get that?