@BFEL: ... and laws generally aren't -- and to a fair degree, shouldn't be -- written with the individual in mind. They're written to the average, with judge discretion, pardons, and similar other release valves in place to deal with outliers. Everyone else, the average works. It's going to cover the majority of cases, and other parts of the legal mechanism deal with the rest. That's how pretty much any functioning legal system is constructed, and when it's working properly, things turn out as it should. There's a whole host of legal history and psychological research and so on and so forth backing that up. The law cares about the average first and the individual second, and largely has to to administrate over any group larger than a single family.
... also,
maybe don't piss on trailer park folks. Living around a lot of them, many -- most, from what I've seen -- would match up as well or better to a high school honor roll student, assuming they're
not one (which is a poor assumption to make for areas where trailer parks are common). Poverty and poor conditions does not mean you have room to stereotype them as poor decision makers -- many of the people living in trailer parks are trying to make the best they can with a poorly dealt hand, not there due to their own mistakes. You definitely have your trailer trash, but treating the whole as if the outlier is representative is as bad as ignoring individual variance compared to the average