Comment by charcircuit

>Societies rely on imperfect enforcement of the law in order to progress.

No, they rely on leadership to progress.

>There's no way to create a critical mass of resistance and disobedience that will lead to the toppling of an unfair law

Encouraging the breaking of laws is not good. Changing laws does not require them to be broken. Allowing for a critical mass of criminals to be created is a bug and not a feature.

>if you enforce the law perfectly and universally, and this will lead society to ossify.

Even if true, that is not neccessarily a bad thing. I find unequal enforcement of the law to be a bigger issue and it allows for vague laws to exist which are selectively applied. If things were perfect much more thought would need to be put into the design of laws.

>We'd still be stuck in the mindset of a century ago.

I'd prefer living in a society like that with strong morals that doesn't cave in and make compromises.

>A society that has removed its own ability to progress is truly a horrifying prospect

As I mentioned above progress can still happen via leadership. Leadership can take in information and make decisions in the way society should be led. Cutting off the information of how much crime is happening doesn't seem like it will make it impossible to make new decisions. There are more data sources that can be used.