> There is a tradeoff between predictability and correctness. Where you come in on that tradeoff is pretty different from most other people.

Because I don't see it as a tradeoff between predictability and correctness, I see it as a tradeoff between correctness for past acts and correctness forever in the future.

If you know a law is ridiculous but you also know that a judge will see the same thing and then not let you do that, you won't do it. Some people like that result. The problem is it causes the ridiculous law to carry on existing and not be fixed, because nobody is willing to challenge it when they know they'll lose and go to jail even though by the letter they shouldn't. So then nobody ever knows what the law actually is because it clearly isn't what it says it is, but if it isn't that then what is it?