The same reasoning you use for extortion applies to many other systems we have today. Should we abolish them because they have failures?
Then reread it with only the explicit meanings in my and root comment: we are talking about the consequences of the law without making any comment on the morals, probably because we are network admins that see this news as input and we are not lawmakers that see it as output.
I hope that by rereading the comments in this light, communication might be improved.
Yes. Any law has consequences. Like the one that gave the police powers to arrest people.