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There's a phrase, 'hard cases make bad law'. I think it might apply here. You don't need to assume bad intent anywhere to get a suboptimal outcome because gener
by tomatocracy 7y ago
There's a phrase, 'hard cases make bad law'. I think it might apply here. You don't need to assume bad intent anywhere to get a suboptimal outcome because generalising from a hard case is a bad idea and yet that's exactly what political processes the world over end up doing at least some of the time.
All we can do is hold our politicians to higher standards but we have to expect nonetheless that the system will fail from time to time and be ready to fix things when it does.
- Silhouette 7y agoYes, there is definitely an element of that here. The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. (H. L. Mencken)