From a purely consequentialist perspective, it's not clearly a net good if it has a chilling effect on legitimate research, increases economic costs due to regu

From a purely consequentialist perspective, it's not clearly a net good if it has a chilling effect on legitimate research, increases economic costs due to regulatory uncertainty, or has other negative second-order effects concomitant with arbitrary and overly subjective legal systems. From a deontological perspective, it's not clear that this is good if one of your values is clearly and consistently enforced law.