Laws are essential otherwise we'd have all out anarchy, I am not agreeing they are all fair or just just that life would be a lot more difficult trying to live if we didn't have guidelines to live by. Look what is happening out in California after they changed the law that shoplifting would no longer be enforced unless it was over a thousand dollars. Shop owners had to go to arming themselves to protect their shops as people were just walking in and taking stuff and walking back out the door. You gotta watch what you wish for otherwise it can come back and bite you. The essentiality of guidelines can be seen as far back as when Moses wrote the ten commandments.