““Ignorance of the law is no excuse”. Without that rule, ANYONE who commits a crime can just say, “I didn’t know...” And get off scott-free.”
The federal register of laws exceeds 80,000 pages - and growing.
Do you know them all?
Do you know how many you’ve violated?
Yet you think you should be found guilty?
I disagree.
“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.” ― Ayn Rand
I once asked a garage to put tubes in tubeless tires for me but the guy running the garage wouldn’t do it unless I told him that the truck was only used as a farm vehicle.
I found some brand new tires that someone had stuck an ice pick in the sidewalls and tubes were the most effective fix but its apparently illegal for a garage to do.
That's not correct. The Federal Register is the listing of proposed regulations, new regulations, modified regulations, and rulemaking discussions. That is indeed 80,000 pages per year, which is a mind-numbing number.
However, the sum total of regulatory law is contained in the Code of Federal Regulations. It's much bigger!