i look at it rather as a duty.
and it seems like you are using the word law to mean like statute and code and regulation which are not exclusively the Law I am talking about, although to dig your american "sovereignty" and ressurect the Law of God and Natural Rights out of the devils mud its (you) been buried in, the path lies in the proper interpretation and application of the whole shebang - law and Law...
tech obseletes none of this responsibility... at best it makes it more feasible to carry out.
tech aint an end in itself.