Nothing prevents a mob for coming to your home and assault you and kill you. Read carefully: EVEN if there is a law written against it, NOTHING short of sheer force can prevent it.
The biggest error consists of thinking Law is some sort of crime-preventing tool for everybody to be happy and unicorns. Law is not to prevent, is to PUNISH crime, i.e., it acts a posteriori, and that’s the reason for principles like “innocent unless proven otherwise” or “in dubio pro reo”.
Once a society falls in the trap of preventive laws and rips the Presumption of innocence, there will be nothing to stop the Government. They will come out with laws and laws, endless regulations and tax-punishment in the name of preventing every little misfit in the world. You open the doors for the Rule of Force.
There is only one way to save the nation from the legal quagmire: repudiation of the idea of the preventive law, in any shape, expression or formulation. In the same way you shouldn’t apply preventive punishment, you shouldn’t apply preventive “global-cooling” regulations, neither you should be able to apply internet-killing regulations to prevent someone somewhere to download a file.
What’s next? Should we forbid selling knives just because some thug is using them to hurt people? That which is irrational in your private everyday life is also irrational coming from the government.
