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I feel like every law should include the reason why it came to exist. People stop dying from it (because the regulation) therefore it’s not needed.
by dd36 8y ago
I feel like every law should include the reason why it came to exist.
People stop dying from it (because the regulation) therefore it’s not needed.
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- TeMPOraL 8y agoI feel the same. It's a similar problem to code comments / commit messages. You look at a line of code and wonder, why on Earth is it there? You hope there's an explanatory comment nearby, or that you can git-blame your way into a commit message. Law is similar, except on much longer timescales. I wish the laws would carry both inline explanation (comments), and explanations of reasoning and causes when changed (commit messages).
- chrshawkes 8y agoThis is part of the reason I hate the mentality that all code is self-documenting, so to speak. I've seen corporate environments that frown on any code commenting besides standard headers and such...
- asveikau 8y agoI think it's very naive to think, especially in the political climate of the last few decades, that people who call for repeal of regulation are first of all reading the text and second would be averted from repeal if it simply contained a rationale or they had it explained to them. De-regulators know there is a reason, in many cases they understand it well. They don't care.
- dd36 8y agoI didn't claim there would be less deregulation. However, it would be harder to misrepresent the original intent and easier to trace recurrence back to repeal.