You're right, but unless you're both a lawyer and a genius then the cold hard facts are that you really can't ever be certain how your actions will be interpreted in light of the entire law.

I used to think this was an issue with the law, that we need to take out loopholes and corner cases. But in the process of specifying allowable and unallowable behavior you make the law so expansive that it can never be grokked.

By making the law simple, you make it fuzzy and now we're back into your problem.

I would blame the lawyers and legislators, but honestly I have extremely simple programs that I can't actually predict the behavior of, and the computer does exactly what I tell it to.

I don't say this to say that we shouldn't fix the law, only that I think at some point you (the royal you) have to come to grips with "c'est la vie" and just not worry as much. Either way you can't completely win, so why fret over what you can't control?