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Originally Posted by tabs
The unintended consequence of making more rules and regulations is that people to be in compliance have to know and understand the myraid of rules and regulations. Sooner or later people will give up trying to figure it all out, at which time respect and compliance for all rules and regulations will decline.
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We're already past that point.
The fact is most of the people on this board are among the more educated and more motivated in society. As a general rule, people here seem more willing and able to research such laws. They also have more to lose than the tens of thousands of others around here who live in the ghettos and have nothing to their names except maybe some gardening equipment and a decaying 1981 Luv pickup truck with bald tires and no insurance.
Honestly I think most people out there don't give a crap about any law that doesn't DIRECTLY affect them - as in "run me a risk on a day-to-day basis of getting fined or thrown in jail". And a lot of them don't even seem to care too much about those, seeing as how you're likely to not get any serious time anyway because the prisons are overcrowded and turning inmates out because the state is broke.
The lazy and the criminal are rewarded. Just as the liberals like it.