I hope your wife gets to feeling well soon ....
As for laws they are concrete. They are there and if we break them we suffer the consequence. In your case it was a fine. We don't have to agree with the law and we don't need to follow them if we really don't want to but we will 100 % with certainly be subject to the penalties given to us from authorities if we are caught breaking them thus making them concrete.
Yes, I think I agree (for the laws part, I definitely agree for the getting better!). If you break a law (knowingly, or in my case stupidly), you should expect some consequence. However, there is always the option for appeal, if you think you have been hard done by. I guess this is where things start to fall down, as you often need time and money to appeal the more serious infractions!
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