[Dread takes a deep breath. Some things he just doesn't like doing; one of those is a lot of talking.]

There aren't enough of us. Anything someone does is going to touch all of us anyway. Laws are for a society that gets so large that some people never meet, and for a society that has some sort of way of enforcing them. A legal system and a class of guards or officers to enforce them, judges to administer them... There isn't enough of us for that. We can and will handle everything directly.