It Is Curious That Laws Are Widely Respected

It is curious, to say the least, that laws are widely respected, when they are made by the same figures that, every four years, we see smiling on billboards, in electoral advertisements, and that, sporadically, we see in the police news handcuffed and arrested for leading scandals. In other words: the laws, conceived in the midst of the same mud responsible for sending some unfortunate ones to jail, are and must be respected as if they were a moral imperative. Undoubtedly, there is something comical in all this, and the obscenity with which the flock is enslaved and remains passive is laughable, when this pornography called law should more sensibly inspire a perennial state of revolt and insubordination.