It’s remarkable how complex any topic — especially anything to do with society and law — can be when you examine it closely.
Take, for example, drunk-driving, which on the face of it seems simple enough. We know that driving drunk is dangerous — I’ve had friends who have died from it, and I nearly did myself, fifty years ago, when I was hitchhiking in New Jersey and was picked up by someone who, I quickly realized, was very drunk indeed.
So, you pick a limit, and when you find people behind the wheel who’ve had more than that, you arrest and charge them. But it turns out that not only is the actual practice of DUI enforcement far more complicated and arbitrary than that, it turns out to be an area in which even the Constitution itself seems to break down.
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When the rule law breaks down, everything becomes very complex – or very simple.
Expecting any detail of law to work, when there is no longer rule of law, is a sure way to disappointment.
Good intentions always end up trampling constitutional rights. MADD is one. ADA (disabled lobby) trample property rights. Civil rights trample personal rights. The stuff going on with hate speech is currently a vanguard of taking free speech rights.