>The parallel I was making was in committing an illegal act. You were holding yourself above illegal immigrants, claiming that you worked your way out of your situation without breaking any laws. I suspected that wasn't true, based on what you'd said.

And I think one thing flew silently below everybody's radar, so I'd like to return to it:

This sleeping in the park may have been one of those situation when the laws may have a crack, and if one falls into one of them, whatever one does will break some law somewhere.

Since finding and fixing those is nobody's priority, costs too much, and doesn't hurt sufficient number of people (or, people multiplied with money) to create any sort of political pressure, they are left in an unsolved state. Usually (at least) one of the laws contradicting other laws is not applied. Sometimes the law is just contrary to common sense - http://dumblaws.com/ has a lot of visitors.

Which is maybe all fine until someone finds such a law and uses it against someone. There's always that danger. Specially when done by someone in power.

Probably material for another thread, and maybe a wrong one for a Friday afternoon, but there it is.