Re: What about the consequences of admitting guilt?
"The rationale for the scheme is that it costs money and wastes time to have people come to court only to admit guilt and have a judge sat there rubber stamping that."
On the other hand: The cheaper it gets to process "crimes", the more stupid laws we will get. A nice little, or large, extra income for the state aparatus with the added bonus of letting the serfs know their insignificant place.