@Heather Between me and you, I hope it ain't so and he gets arrested!! Only cause I can't stand the smell.
I really hope that that was a tongue in cheek comment.
As regards breaking of laws, blighty and the united state are alike in having around thirty feet of bookshelf worth of legislated laws, and around another seventy feet plus of bureaucrat made regulations, which have the standing of laws.
No human can ever reasonably read through that lot, let alone understand and remember it all. I'll give the small example that a few years back, the professional body of British judges issued a report, complaining that they now have considerable difficulty finding jurors who are capable of following even a moderately complex case. They cited the B liar and Clown government's turning of business practices into fourteen thousand new criminal offences.
Fourteen thousand new criminal offences, in business alone!
How many fellonies has each of us committed today?
The average is in the region of three to five, daily.
The presence of a bad law does not justify siccing thugs ( shiny badged thugs or otherwise) on our fellows.
Sure, it happens. That ability, that opportunity, appeals to, and brings out the very worst possible version of us.
The sort of person who snitches because something about another person appeals to the most intolerant, jealous, small minded and spiteful parts of themselves.
I'll restate, that someone who is exercising those small minded parts, is being a difficult unpleasant person.
There are plenty of people in history, who have chosen to risk punishment for doing what was just, rather than what unjust laws said. I'll cite a good swathe of the Quakers as an example. People who expected to frequently see the inside of prisons and worse*, rather than be unjust to their fellows.
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In Massachusetts alone, the worse included being stripped naked tied to a cart and whipped through town. Ears cut off, branded, and ultimately, execution.
Even Quakers who I've known, went to prison rather than in any way support violence. I see them as people who sought to be the best possible versions of themselves, rather than seeking pretexts such as because piece of paper with politicians writing on it, to excuse being the worst version.
