I can't wrap my brain around that discrepancy nor can I accept a legal system at odds with the terms upon which it is founded. Now you know why I'm an engineer/scientist not a lawyer.
While in the Navy, I was assigned to attend a course for unit Legal Officers, taught by JAG lawyers. The opening statement was that, as a lawyer, one must adopt a moral code that usually conflicts with the one he was taught. That did it for me.
Which is to say that I understand why you are in a profession other than the law.