Look. The law is an arse but it is the law.
Just because a law is stupid is no reason to ignore it and pretend it doesn't apply to you as we have.
You can make all the points in the world about it Gordy but it doesn't change the black and white of it. Those are the laws we are obliged to abide by them.
As an edit: I don't buy this 'the law is the law ' stuff either. If it was, we would have no lawyers, no judicial system, no common law, and no changes to the law because the original one was wrong.