Way back in the dim recesses of childhood memory is a cartoon character — Daffy Duck, I think — in a hilarious scene trying to plug holes in a dam with his fingers. First one hole springs a leak. No problem. Then another, so Daffy uses a second digit. Pretty soon holes are popping open all over the place and poor Daffy is out of fingers and wearing himself to a frazzle trying to keep up. The dam breaks and our funny friend ends up with birdies circling over his head.
That ancient cartoon is an ideal metaphor for our times. The dam is our legal system. The leaks are loopholes in the law, while Daffy represents you and me and everyone else trying to make an honest living and be a good person. No matter how earnestly we try to abide by the law, loopholes pop open all the time that threaten to drown us in litigation.