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Eh? The national law is literally written down. "Guesswork" doesn't seem like a good way to do anything without stumbling into a lot of confusion and miscommun

• wongarsu 6y ago
  If law was as simple as reading what's written down, then what are all the lawyers and courts for. There is a lot of interpretation going on. But really I was referring to the process of how the laws are formed in the first place. A lot of the time they start out under-specified, and as abuses emerge we make more concrete laws using our new understanding. Of course the latter part usually leads to a lot of discussion and resistance because of the collateral damage any new law causes by being slightly broader than necessary. Which is a major reason many industries self-regulate in the attempt to make explicit laws unnecessary.