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> That seems like a terrible idea because people forget why useful regulations were needed. To me that seems to indicate that we need to keep a record of why l
by microcolonel 7y ago
> That seems like a terrible idea because people forget why useful regulations were needed.
To me that seems to indicate that we need to keep a record of why laws are made, so that the case is simply ready to be made when the sun is due to set.
- majormajor 7y agoNeither contemporary recordings nor history books are hard to find. But the people who have something to gain by unwisely rolling back regulation, and who have money to buy themselves platforms, are deliberately not talking about the reasons the laws exist, so short of something more akin to state control of media, what are you going to do?
- thaumasiotes 7y ago> To me that seems to indicate that we need to keep a record of why laws are made Whether and why a practice is useful generally has little or nothing to do with people's understanding of whether and why it is useful. The arguments people advance for everything, including valuable things, are almost uniformly nonsense and easy to disprove. So, a record of why laws are made wouldn't really serve any purpose.
- stuaxo 7y agoLaws should be measured against the reasons they were created.
- thaumasiotes 7y agoIf you start doing a good thing for a bad reason, you should stop?
- vidarh 7y agoAn alternative would be if instead of sunset provisions laws are made to explicitly include testable goals, and a process for challenging them by proving they don't achieve their intended goal.