The Law

Why must laws be so complicated that you start having people that specialize in reading the law (ie lawyers)?

Shouldn't the language of the law be easy enough to be understood and  accessible to everyone in the country without having to pay someone to interpret for you?

STFU

Laws aren't that complicated, but there are so many of them and there can be many laws on one thing. It's big mess. Sometimes there are even conflicting laws.

I AM THE LAW!

>>4
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA

WAILE MATH, WAIL TRAVEL!

You know your government is failing if the number of new  behaviour restrictive laws is growing at a higher rate than the rate at which criminals are inventing new crimes.

I FOUGHT THE LAW AND THE LAW WON

Oh you stupid stupid goys, you think you've got it hard. psst.
For shame.

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The problem is that laws have to be extremely precise.  Normal vernacular is vague and ambiguous and heavily context-dependent, and if laws were like that, people would be doing all kinds of crazy shit that may or may not be against the law, depending on how you read it.

>>10
No, I don't think that is true.  I think it is actually benificial for the goverment to have a very complicated leagal code.  This is doubly true for tax laws.

A complicated legal system allows government to give favors to their friends and screw over the ordinary citizen. 

No, >>10 is correct. Anyone who has studies any law at all knows that it's all about the definitions. The (often subtle) meaning of a single word in an act can make or break a case.

That doesn't mean >>11 is wrong though. The common law system has an insane number of laws, all written is dry and elaborate legalese. As if that wasn't enough, an act isn't necessarily correct either, since precedent builds on top of that!

So the law really is beyond the lay person. I don't know how we'd fix it. Maybe some form of civil law with very short legislation and judges that have significant freedom, but this opens its own can of worms.