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I saw a really good TED talk where the speaker argued that we have far too many laws right now: http://www.ted.com/talks/philip_howard.html http://www.ted.com/t
by derwiki 17y ago
I saw a really good TED talk where the speaker argued that we have far too many laws right now: http://www.ted.com/talks/philip_howard.html http://www.ted.com/talks/philip_howard.html
- Groxx 17y agoOne of the few useful ideas I read in Utopia stated that (paraphrased) it's nuts to be bound by laws you cannot possibly comprehend within a year. Makes a lot of sense to me, personally. Though I'll grant that won't happen, it's an ideal to shoot for, instead of endlessly patching problems with laws that noone can possibly comprehend the ramifications of due to the system's complexity.
- dnsworks 17y agoA year is a long time. If it took a year to comprehend all the laws that you might be breaking, you're guaranteed to at least break some of them.
- Groxx 17y agoThis is as opposed to the lifetime+ of our current set of laws? I'm not saying a year is a good number, just that it's a better goal to shoot for than we currently have (more laws apparently == better).