I don't see how there's much you can do. It is probably impossible to go a day without breaking a law unknowingly. The law is so big that it is impossible for a single person to know all of it. In other words, even if you did nothing all day but study law, you could end up unknowingly breaking a law and going to jail. The problem is with the law, not with people.
> The law is so big that it is impossible for a single person to know all of it.
You're also forgetting case-law here too. It's possible for someone to read all of the laws on the books, but not realize what the current interpretation by the courts of those laws is (or will be).
I think the opposite is true here. Inspector Javer will always make it his career and his life to chase Jean Valjean. It doesn't matter whether there's 5 laws or 50000.
There are certain people in the world like this. There always have been. Unfortunately, they seem to be drawn to law enforcement. The best any system can hope for is to minimize their impact. I do agree that our current system does a very poor job of it.
A better system would be for education and compliance programs instead of imprisonment. It costs about $40k/year to keep someone in prison. Surely it should cost less to teach them how to do things on the up and up (which would be easier if the law was navigable.)
