Signs of Decline
by kelly
   
Urban Fishing RulesOriginally uploaded by Koog Family.
The lawyer in me appreciates a finely coordinated set of codified rules, but knows that they are rarely either coordinated or enforced.
The libertarian in me knows that that a society that imposes too many rules, as our prolific governments do today, at all levels, simply causes, by definition, widespread rule-breaking.
And so, I find these signs in the park mildly amusing but quietly unfortunate.
A majority of the people who frequent this park don’t speak English natively, if at all.
So the laws announced in these signs result in the creation of multiple violators - citizen and otherwise.
I have to find the quote I’ve bookmarked at work - it cites Plato on how prolific legislation is a sign of a society in decline.
  
Notice in the ParkOriginally uploaded by Koog Family.
The rules on these signs may have been better observed at the time of their original drafting. But today, I fear, they are reminders that our country is sliding toward lawlessness as simple a result of suffering under too many laws.