Most people I see talking about their legal literacy are best described as cocky and dangerous to themselves and others they give advice to. The same behavior shows up with medical literacy.
> Most people I see talking about their legal literacy are best described as cocky and dangerous to themselves and others they give advice to.
100%.
I have a side hustle doing etching, engraving, and CNC-type things. The forums and groups for this kind of things are teeming with people who not just believe, but tell others, that copyright and trademark either don't apply to them for $reasons or doesn't even exist for things they found for "free" on the internet.
Those people exist at least partly because they haven't received education to the contrary. There will always be cocky, ignorant, wrong people in the world. But they certainly won't get any smarter if we don't teach them.
That reminds me of people who post blatantly-copyright-infringing videos on YouTube, but put in the description "no copyright intended" (whatever that means) as some sort of defense.
Maybe schooling could help with that.