> For example, if it were impossible to create laws regarding traffic signs, it would still be possible to achieve a similar 4-way intersection, with cars stopping for each other - it would have to physically prevent passage from one side to the other, alternative the open direction, like gates or whatever.
In complex organized sports like football (association or American, take your pick), there are lots of rules about the movement of players, the flow of the game, etc. that are generally followed, and penalties are generally well enforced when the rules are not followed. And yet there are no laws behind these rules. It would appear that complex rules can be created and enforced by mechanisms other than law.
OP's beef was with the existence of complex rules - not that the complex rules have force of law. You and the other respondent gave examples of where complex rules will arise even if the state doesn't come up with them. Presumably the "coder in Sacha" would hate all those "if/else" statements just as much.
But they just don't apply to the OP - unless the OP becomes a football coach or starts operating a fishery, he can just ignore them.
(I did mean to start my original comment "You're just not encapsulating reality properly".)
In complex organized sports like football (association or American, take your pick), there are lots of rules about the movement of players, the flow of the game, etc. that are generally followed, and penalties are generally well enforced when the rules are not followed. And yet there are no laws behind these rules. It would appear that complex rules can be created and enforced by mechanisms other than law.