Robert Sheckley. Civilization status (№ 354383)

The law is above the criminal and the judge ruled them both. It is inevitable, because any action either legal, or illegal. If I may say so, the law lives his life, is existence, quite apart from the finite lives of the beings putting it into execution. The law governs every aspect of human behavior; therefore, to the extent that humans are lawful beings, the law of human. And, being human, the law has flaws. For citizens who abide by the law, he is distant and invisible. But if someone denies or transgresses his law rises from the ashes to haunt the offender.