Originally Posted by
Moe Zhoost
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.
You do realize that such laws would violate the Fourth Amendment, right? And so there probably aren't very many of them.
Now, if you want to adjust this argument, you could suggest that police sometimes misuse their authority to try to control people's behavior even when they have no legal authority to do so.