Allowing Laws to be Broken: A Restriction on Freedom

At its core, each law represents at least a slight infringement of our rights. We give power to our government to provide certain social benefits, which we deem necessary, through the enactment of these laws. Very few citizens read the laws and only a fraction of those, or the rest of the population for that matter, can understand the convoluted jargon constituting a law. The population can only evaluate the acceptability of a law through the real-world experiment of common experience. Enforcing a law sparsely, or sometimes not at all, deprives society of its only practical test of that law. The government has made a statement of power by enacting a law that the population may or may not find acceptable, taken away the populace's ability to judge the law, and maintained it as an official policy held over the head of the nation with the omnipresent threat of enforcement.