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Why do we tolerate the many situations where the law doesn’t match accepted practice?
For example, nude bathing is technically illegal in Queensland, but there are nudist beaches all up the coast.
Why don’t we strive to have the law policed at face value, instead of accepting fuzzy interpretations, especially where the law can easily be interpreted in totally black and white terms?
For example, condoning leeways on speed limits rather than having them policed accurately, or pushing for the speed limits to be raised by 5 or 10kmh in order to bring them in line with the fact that most of us exceed the speed limit by a few kmh practically all the time, with the sanction of the police.
Why are there so many laws that are not policed or only sporadically and very unfairly policed?
For example, many minor road rules.
Why isn’t every effort made to make law enforcement as uniform and as fair as possible, instead of the widespread acceptance that it is ok for the police to turn a blind eye to all sorts of infringements for the majority of the time and then nab someone for just the same thing that they let everyone else get away with?
Why are we told that we are innocent until proven guilty, when the opposite is often patently the case in our courts?
It seems to me that the very foundation of our legal system, and of a strong and coherent society, is crumbling.