In short term you are right. But in long term you end up with buggy law system in which you know you can be prosecuted for your daily activities. Such system is fertile ground for corruption ( <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1063485" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1063485</a> ) and straight way to totalitarian state when you always know you've done something that can put you in jail but just hope authorities won't find out. That significantly limit your incentive to oppose activities of the state.