eruv rubbish

To many people, the eruv sounds like a legal fiction, a way to circumvent the spirit and possibly letter of the law against carrying. To them, the eruv risks making the entire Jewish legal process seem absurd to non-Jews and non-observant Jews.

Exactly!

If you don't like your religious precepts then toss them, don't play fast and loose with them.

I am considering chanting Jingle Bells everyday which will make me a citizen of the North Pole and therefore make me except from Australian tax law!