Have you ever unintentionally broken the law?
There’s a WordPress Daily Prompt that I’ve never really noticed before. Today’s question caught my eye, though.
Yes, I’m sure that I’ve unintentionally broken the law at some point in the past.
Our ridiculous tangle of city, county, state, and federal laws mean that there’s absolutely no way for anyone to truly know every statute, much less to understand them and how they interact. I don’t think lawyers can really accomplish that. I’m sure law enforcement personnel don’t know them all. Judges? Well, they have staff to help them, but no, I don’t think they know all the laws for every situation.
I’m not going to confess to anything, even possible offenses for which the statute of limitations is long past. I’m not looking for trouble, and that sounds like a good way to find it.
We definitely need to simplify our legal code.
