>>Through these institutions we attempt to develop laws, regulations, and codes of conduct, that attempt to define acceptable behaviour, rights and responsibilities, protections, and punishments.

This is where I disagree. I am proponent of Lockean natural or self evident rights. Government's sole purpose it is protect my individual rights that I have simply because I exist. These rights are an extension of my Self Agency or Self Ownership.

Government is not to define what is "accptable behaviour" or to define what my rights are, or what codes of conduct is to be.

Law should simply be the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense. This common force is to only protect persons, liberty and property.