While there most definitely is a place for rules and laws, it must be understood that when it comes to those rules and laws, often times, more does not make for a better society, but almost certainly makes for a more repressive and unfair society. The very first problem with so many rules and laws is that more times than not, what is not needed is more of the same, but rather society would be better served instead with the fair, consistent, and equal application of those laws being applied to all of mankind, in kind. What we find though is what happens again and again, is that those that have money, or connections, or both, need not overly concern themselves about rules, for they are, in essence, invulnerable to them; so that, in effect, the rules and laws are mainly put into place primarily so as to keep the masses in their place, which thereby aids in the favored minority being able to not only maintain control over the masses, but makes it easier for them to continue to exploit them by the arbitrary or prejudicial usage of those rules and laws.
While a lot of people believe that rules and laws are a necessary precondition in order to have a good civilization, this is countermanded by the fact that so many of these rules and laws are specifically created so as to be a source of trouble and of manipulation for those that are not part of the favored group -- who themselves are the arbiters of these laws. After all, no matter the intent of a given law or rule, how good that law or rule is, has an awful lot to do with how it is applied to the general population along with the rightful sensibility of such; and to the degree that this is done in a fair, impartial and consistent manner, then that typically makes for a good rule or law. On the other hand, laws and rules, that are ever changing, depending upon the times, or the interpreters of such, are typically bad laws and rules, for they lack consistency as well as often, sensibility.
So too, rules and laws can be liken to an alternative form of taxation, in which those that disobey such, are subject to fines or incarceration, which because these take away the source of income for people, is effective in extracting money or precluding the earning of money from those that are found guilty, and thereby weakens those people that are held in violation of those rules and laws. Additionally, to try to overcome infractions of those rules and laws, often necessitates the expenditure of assets to obtain good counsel, which again, is another form of extracting money from the public, so as to be redirected to those chosen few.
It so seems that just about any rule or law, no matter how clearly written such is, can be interpreted in a manner in which those that have influence and money are thereby able to obtain relief from such; whereas all those that lack those very things, do not. Therefore the continual expansion of these rules and laws are clearly meant as a means to get all those that are not part of the governing or protected class, to pay proper homage to those that are, or else suffer the ill effects of their recalcitrance.