When considering what should be and should not be a law, most people don't consider that in the end, you are using guns and force to accomplish your goals. In the future when people are more evolved and have a little more wisdom I'd like to think they might consider this. As an abstract entity from a fictional book, I like to think that I have some wisdom to impart. So.......I present my criteria.

What should be law?

     1. Is the law you want enforced moral?

     2. Does this law protect a person or property of a person?

     3. Are you willing to kill them?

       My third criteria often shocks people. "What do you mean! that's crazy!". Well, all laws are enforced by people with guns. If you resist, they will arrest and fine you. If you resist more they will kill you. That is a fact. And like my posts, the truth is often short and simple.

Example 1

      So you like drug laws. Lots of american conservatives and other busybodies love them. Do they pass my tests?

      1.  I guess you could make a case for some drug laws based on morality. "The children!" is usually involved in the argument. But that quickly breaks down when they are enjoying their beers and wild turkey in front of their own kids. And they certainly don't want any family member arrested for alcohol.

     2. Drug laws certainly don't protect property or the person with the joint, or 8 ball. It's their body, and their choice.

     3. I'm not willing to kill anyone because they have a substance on them, even if i disagree with the use of it.

       So drug laws don't really pass any of the tests. They are immoral. They don't respect personal property or the individual. I'm amazed that people are actually willing to kill people that have plants in their possession.

Example 2

     So you like murder laws? Well, maybe not like them. Do they pass the tests?

     1. Certainly, most people consider murder immoral. I would gather 99.9999%. The exception being serial killers(or politicians)..

     2. A law against murder certainly respects a persons individual right to be left alone and alive.....

     3. I am willing to defend myself or someone else from a murderer with lethal force.

     So murder laws pass all the tests. I'm willing to kill to enforce this.

     Apply my tests to all your favorite laws and see if you are secretly a busybody who is willing to kill others for unimportant worldviews, such as income taxes or prostitution or gambling etc..... I know it gets really hard when you get down to speeding laws and jaywalking. What you're willing to kill for shows alot about the type of person you are. Hopefully, this will make you a better one.

  Now, i put blockchain in my tabs because this is a crypto-centric site, and it is always good to show how decentralization of money helps everyone. Especially in the law department. With digital, open-sourced, trusted money the power structure of the world will change. Instead of the busybodies having control over legislation, government, and banking. The individual will have more say. And individuals can be reasoned with. I like to believe that most people were never really willing to kill over possession of plants. These laws were put in practice by a minority of short-sighted people with clout.

    One day the blockchain will replace these people, or at least minimize the amount of damage they can do to people and the economy.