[avmich]

> this is not a valid defence in the eyes of the law

This is particularly troublesome since some laws are obscure or hidden (you have to know where to look or you just can't have the content of the law - by another law), and also since some (all?) laws are written in a complicated language to be pretty hard to understand.

Imagine laws written in, say, C, in a world without computers - I wonder how law would be practiced there.