10-10-2014, 11:32 PM
Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous that randomly stopping vehicles to check license/registration is illegal, but if you just stop every car and post signs then it's legal. It's not the frequency of the action, it's the cause. They're just randomly stopping every vehicle...
However, at some point legal realism/positivism trump arguments for natural law. Is it immoral to check that drivers on a road are licensed to drive? Not really. Are they checking citizenship looking for Jews similar to Nazi Germany? No. If you don't like a law and you really feel so strongly about it... start a blog, write your representatives, or run for office. The rest of the working smucks in the world have to deal with the laws as they're written and move on with our lives.
However, at some point legal realism/positivism trump arguments for natural law. Is it immoral to check that drivers on a road are licensed to drive? Not really. Are they checking citizenship looking for Jews similar to Nazi Germany? No. If you don't like a law and you really feel so strongly about it... start a blog, write your representatives, or run for office. The rest of the working smucks in the world have to deal with the laws as they're written and move on with our lives.