It's not backwards.

I'm arguing that those things should drive policy and laws, but we can't implement contradictory laws, and we can't just ignore existing laws when making new ones.

Instead we need to revise, rescind, or modify laws in compliance with existing ones. Otherwise there is no point to having laws to begin with.

Yea, the legal system did not make humans. We made it to serve us and our purposes but now its being used to stifle the populace and profit off those less fortunate