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With a unit test, you hit Run and it's either Red or Green. With a constituency, there is no such universal agreement on what is desirable. Politics is the me
by floatrock 5y ago
With a unit test, you hit Run and it's either Red or Green.
With a constituency, there is no such universal agreement on what is desirable.
Politics is the messy, ambiguous, and incomplete process of deciding which X is most desirable.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 5y agoThere’s not agreement on what’s desirable, but there’s agreement of what the goals of a piece of legislation are. Often, those goals area measurable. The scale of experimentation that would be required to scientifically test whether legislation does what it’s supposed to do would be massive, but I’d bet it would be worthwhile.
- bluGill 5y agoSure, but the problem is there are unintended consequences that you don't even think of until after passing the law. Sure you can measure metrics, but only the metrics you know to measure, not ones that you didn't think of.