I agree. We need dispute resolution systems, for when someone does something wrong, or just negligent. But we don't need codified laws or legislation. Most traditional legal systems run on precedent, not codes of law. English Common Law was one of them, once, and could be again if the accumulated fiat legislation were cut away.

English common law is a dispute resolution system with time and repetition. It essentially becomes codified law when played out dozens of times with the same agreed outcome.

You are an Anarchist.

Outcomes roughly similar, but process very different. Codification is top-down, prescriptive, and necessarily reactive. Precedent is bottom-up, inductive, and always has scope for incremental change.

I understand the difference. What I'm saying is that common law becomes equivalent when written down after the same decision is made multiple times, in fact even every time subsequent to the first time.