Which is why I view the nationwide 55-mph speed limit law as, quite possibly, the most destructive law that we ever had. For it was flouted by every driver in America at one point or another. Which then led to a general contempt of law in general.
Same for all speed limit laws. Every driver has violated them at least once.
And most drivers violate them habitually. When I get on the Interstate, the flow of traffic in the left lane is 80mph. Some people do 65, hardly anybody does 55 (and they better stay in the right lane if they don't want the other drivers seriously pissed off at them). Some do more than 80, but 80 seems to be the threshold around here where the cops will pull you over.
Once you are used to violating one set of laws, and see most people also violating them with impunity, then other laws lose much of their power.