Beyond that, there are just certain laws I respect, because they’re congruent with kindness, compassion and empathy. I don’t need a law that tells me not to murder, steal or rape people. Likewise, perpetrate sexual abuse on children, like the pedo-in-chief.

Of course, we need laws against greed and corruption, because the desire to hoard resources in the human animal is so strong - it’s a vestigial evolutionary holdover we share with chimps who kill each other to have domain over the fruit or nut grove. This manifests in the hoarding of property at the expense of the working poor, developing nations and of the livability of the plane.

In fact, I would say most of the preventable injustice in the world results from greed.

As a species, we’re lousy at regulating and controlling it, hence the allure of socialism to enforce a mentality of collective well-being, rather than a destructive individualistic one. It’s a return to a more primordial precivilized state where we ensured the survival of all within the tribe, although we’d disqualify outgroups. Socialism is just a slight modification of that to benefit everyone beyond our own families and communities.

But there are certain people, like Bernie, AOC and Mamdani who take the office of a public servant seriously and just do what’s right regardless of laws, because that’s the kind of people they are.

It’s unfortunate we need so many laws, due to the number of shit people in the world.