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Originally Posted by malloyd
Which frankly is not all that rare. Most societies don't really *need* new laws on a regular basis. Even in the modern world, where we think you need laws and regulations for everything, and there are a lot of other kinds of change to generate new situations that might even genuinely need some, many laws are fairly old, or closely modeled on an old one it "replaced".
Believing you need new laws every year is historically a weird outlier.
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While I might agree with you from a philosophical point of view, note that most real societies add new laws at a rate that is too fast for any reasonable person to follow the rate and that the complexity of the actual legal system quickly outstrips the ability of any realistic person to follow it.
In other words, no matter how little complexity people might prefer, the reality is that voters and their servitors, given the chance, tend to fiddle with the existing rules often enough to make it essentially impossible for a non-expert to know what the current state of the art of Law is at any given time.
A fairly predictable result of this is that any old-fashioned character who imagines that Law and Philosophy (Ethics) or Theology (Preferred Religion) share any kind of framework with Law will quickly be disabused of that entirely false notion by a session or two of witnessing the actual Law skill functioning in the setting.