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Your alternative with regulations requires politicians to be perfectly rational. Checkmate. The argument that people can't be rational and think for themselves
by Kenji 10y ago
Your alternative with regulations requires politicians to be perfectly rational. Checkmate.
The argument that people can't be rational and think for themselves, therefore they need other people (a political class) to decide for them, is, frankly, disgusting. No thanks.
- legulere 10y agoThey just need to be more rational than the general population. Usually politicians don't really decide things though, but they're putting the stuff experts tell them into laws and arbiter between interests. You'll need governments deciding things anyway. Otherwise you can't come up with fair contracts when there's a difference of power in the parties of the contract (think e.g. costumer and manufacturer and food safety regulations), even when both sides are rational.