These were not simply rules or views of people like my parents or teachers, but something more. Laws were things that somehow defined the moral, and immutable set of rules for life. If you broke laws there were police that would take you away and lock you up.
Over time one realises that laws are not quite so concrete. For a start, they change, and new laws come in and old laws are repealed or changed.
The idea that something today may be illegal tomorrow, or the other way around, is crazy. It is how it works, but that is, well, just mental, how can a thing change from "right" to "wrong" or "wrong" to "right" just because we have moved on in time?
What I later learned is that these laws we all follow are created by, well, just people. And they are not people that have a lot of training, and learning, and credentials, and academic achievement or qualifications in their field. They are created by people that happened to win a local popularity contest in their constituency, working with others that have the same credibility. There is no qualification needed to make laws. There is no test. There is no exam. You literally have to win a local popularity contest to be an MP, and MPs can literally make new laws.
That, in itself, in insane, sorry. I mean some of them are sensible, and some even qualified. I have known some MPs that seriously know what they are doing. But "running the country" and, importantly, "making laws" has no qualifications needed. It is amateurs that won a local popularity contest, that is it.
So is there a better system?
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