> Laws don't protect you from infiltration and subversion. But they do, generally, erect barriers that make it *more difficult* than it otherwise would be. Seeing the failure of the *concept* of laws in general, I don't know if they're a net negative at this point, simply because it seems in the long run all the idea of 'law' does is give short-term gains, but lull each nation that tries it into complacency.