Are you a law abiding citizen?

by Alan West, 10 February 2007.

Considering the vast quantity of information contained in the many volumes of law books, how can any regular person possibly abide by all that law?

In aiming to be complete and accurate, laws are overly wordy and extremely specific, resulting in different interpretations, grey areas, failure to comply, and loopholes.

I wonder if laws could be generalised down to around twenty or thirty universal base laws, that would cover entities [people, organisations, and governments] pressing charges against each other about [unfairness, failure, loss, damage, destruction] and determining the relevant level of [compensation, agreement, damages, criminal prosecution and sentencing].