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No. We have elected representatives to study these questions in depth. You can't ask every citizen to be an expert in ethics, genetics, medicine, computer scien

No. We have elected representatives to study these questions in depth. You can't ask every citizen to be an expert in ethics, genetics, medicine, computer sciences, virology, etc. so they can make the obvious/good/true/rational choice. That's why societies have laws. So we can know what to do or not when faced with such questions instead of passing the burden to the individual under the guise that it's "freeing people".

Mirioron 8y ago
>No. We have elected representatives to study these questions in depth. Except the elected representatives are dumb as rocks. I'm sure they studied how the cookie law would work really in depth before voting on it. That's why the cookie law worked out so perfectly, right? Oh wait, it didn't do ANYTHING other than cost companies millions of euros and wasted the time of the general public. It had ZERO benefits and a CS student could tell you that the way it was designed it could never have any benefits. I guess the only benefit of the law is to show that lawmakers continue to be incompetent at technology. >That's why societies have laws. So we can know what to do or not when faced with such questions instead of passing the burden to the individual under the guise that it's "freeing people". Societies have laws so that the regular person thinks that everyone plays according to the same rules, but that's not true in practice. Laws are intentionally written to be vague and not consistently enforced. This has led to a situation where there are so many laws that everyone breaks several every year and as a result if somebody higher up in the chain doesn't like what you're doing they can use the state to harass you with. If laws were truly about knowing what to do then it would be impossible to graduate from mandatory education without having studied every single law that will apply to you in most circumstances. Furthermore, vague laws wouldn't be written and would get removed from legal codes. Furthermore, laws that are only selectively enforced would be removed, because laws can only be just if they apply to everyone consistently.
feanaro 8y ago
> That's why societies have laws. So we can know what to do or not when faced with such questions instead of passing the burden to the individual under the guise that it's "freeing people". Yes, but laws can be devastating just as easily. In an age where the abuse and misuse of the ever-growing body of laws is so rampant, I cannot help to think that having even more badly written laws is a good solution. Legislation is at best a necessary evil: a baggage, a clunky, heavy stone which you have to lug with you all day, every day. It serves a purpose, but you want to have as little of it as possible.

Mirioron 8y ago

>No. We have elected representatives to study these questions in depth. Except the elected representatives are dumb as rocks. I'm sure they studied how the cookie law would work really in depth before voting on it. That's why the cookie law worked out so perfectly, right? Oh wait, it didn't do ANYTHING other than cost companies millions of euros and wasted the time of the general public. It had ZERO benefits and a CS student could tell you that the way it was designed it could never have any benefits. I guess the only benefit of the law is to show that lawmakers continue to be incompetent at technology. >That's why societies have laws. So we can know what to do or not when faced with such questions instead of passing the burden to the individual under the guise that it's "freeing people". Societies have laws so that the regular person thinks that everyone plays according to the same rules, but that's not true in practice. Laws are intentionally written to be vague and not consistently enforced. This has led to a situation where there are so many laws that everyone breaks several every year and as a result if somebody higher up in the chain doesn't like what you're doing they can use the state to harass you with. If laws were truly about knowing what to do then it would be impossible to graduate from mandatory education without having studied every single law that will apply to you in most circumstances. Furthermore, vague laws wouldn't be written and would get removed from legal codes. Furthermore, laws that are only selectively enforced would be removed, because laws can only be just if they apply to everyone consistently.

feanaro 8y ago

> That's why societies have laws. So we can know what to do or not when faced with such questions instead of passing the burden to the individual under the guise that it's "freeing people". Yes, but laws can be devastating just as easily. In an age where the abuse and misuse of the ever-growing body of laws is so rampant, I cannot help to think that having even more badly written laws is a good solution. Legislation is at best a necessary evil: a baggage, a clunky, heavy stone which you have to lug with you all day, every day. It serves a purpose, but you want to have as little of it as possible.