With certain qualifications, yes.
Prior to the Great Depression, the basic concept behind US law was "no harm, no foul". A technical
violation of the law with no victim and no negative consequences was very likely to be ignored.
Compare that to what happens these days. Find your own examples. If your eyes are open, you
won't have to look for some for very long.
Yeah, it's different!
I believe that drug use, for example, should not be a legal issue. It's a very serious social issue,
and it should be dealt with on a social level. Now, drug DEALING is and should remain a criminal act, but that's because it involves others and has great potential to do harm to them.
I subscribe to a ten year concept: Most laws automatically sunset after ten years and no law can be "rubber stamped" back into effect. They have to go through the full process that any new bill does to become a law.
Congress would earn their paychecks by staying very busy, and we'd have fewer useless laws to get in our way.
CJ