The failure of our species to govern itself so laws are enacted is optimistic? You're statement that "it would still be possible for most regulations to be bad

The failure of our species to govern itself so laws are enacted is optimistic? You're statement that "it would still be possible for most regulations to be bad" is sheer lunacy. Are you listening to yourself? If I listened to your logic, I'd expect airplanes to be falling from the sky, computers are not possible, and the moon landed must be fake - because they is no way, the misunderstandings, the calculation problem, the unintended consequences... humbug.