martybegan
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Does this apply to marijuana? How about sodomy?
The more laws there are, the more people will start disobeying the law.
Its not just quantity of laws, its quality.
There is a dividing line between laws people break that they see as stupid, and those they know are legitamate and break them anyway.
Unless the person is a sociopath, an armed robbery knows what he is doing is wrong, and knows he is injuring another party, he just doesnt care. The law broken is designed to protect other people specificly, namely the robbery victim
A person buying a dime bag on the other hand, is breaking a law designed to protect "society" and the person buying the dimebag themself, as the government has decided that people cannot handle pot responsibly. There is no concrete victim of the crime. This type of law is more abstract than ones we can all agree on (theft, murder, etc).
To go with the OP's line of reasoning, you dont see people protesting for the right to randomly murder and rape people. Laws people protest are often the laws that seek to protect society and the individual from themselves.