The meaning of law not blaming the public

The Chinese idiom Pinyin means that even if a certain behavior should be punished by law, many people have done it, so it is not easy to punish it.

Usage of idioms: as object and attribute; Used in spoken English

Example: Xiong Zhang Volume 4 Chapter 10: "Nowadays, people who eat and drink are prickly, so the law does not blame the public!"

The origin of the idiom: The thirty-eighth chapter of Xiao Wuyi by Yu Kun in the Qing Dynasty: "Everyone talks about it, and the law does not blame the public, and everyone leaves."

Extended data:

The law does not blame the public, which is a government action taken by the ancient government against a certain phenomenon of the people. A certain phenomenon among the people here refers to the countermeasures taken by officials after everyone is making similar mistakes and being concentrated in the government. In feudal society, the laws made by the minority ruling the majority and the ruling class are often evil laws that infringe on the interests of the public.

So most people are unwilling to abide by it. If the blame is easy to cause confrontation between the government and the people or even riots; If left unchecked, the ruler will lose face. Therefore, the ruling class adopted a helpless and self-defeating method.

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