Originally Posted by
jon c.
Having laws that are enforced only at the convenience of the police when it serves their ends seems like a very poor practice.
Our world is full of laws and regulations that attempt to control behaviour through some seemingly unrelated artifice. This is usually intentional to give the authorities leverage when they feel that it should be applied. I won't say that such strategies are horrible; I think they can be applied in an effective and fair manner. However there are many times when they are used too frequently and for the wrong reasons.
Originally Posted by
jon c.
Hard for anyone to have much respect for a system that treats the law in so capricious a fashion.
We have what we have. Remember that the folks who brought you such laws were voted into office by a
majority of your neighbours.