Law and behold, Beholders of Law!

For the law-abiding citizen, there are no silly laws or illogical legal chastisements. If a law exists, no matter how unreasonable, for persons of such faith, the law is to lo and behold dearly, and anyone found breaking it seen to have got just deserts. Anyone pointing out that a particular law is silly can be perceived as someone trying to bring the whole edifice of law - and its kissing cousin, order - down. So, anyone finding a statute that sanctions, say, stoning to death a person found to be unfaithful to his or her spouse (it is always 'her' but we're trying to stay theoretical here) can be seen by the 'upholders of law' as someone who may well find say, murder, to be legit act. Using extant laws, silly or not, 'cleverly' can serve a practical purpose. The gangster Al Capone, accused of multiple crimes including being the kingpin behind many murders, was finally put behind bars not for murder but for tax evasion - of which he was, indeed, found guilty.

But silly laws, by virtue (sic) of their silliness, actually throw more light on those taking them out of the cupboard to use them than those on whom they are used. Fewer people remember Charlie Chaplin being harangued for suspected of being a 'communist'. Most people just remember Joseph McCarthy, the House Committee on Un-American Activities and the very 'legal' Public Law 60.