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These things correlate though. Sure, sometimes we get misses like child car seats, but more often than not outrage-induced regulation manages to make things bet
by lrem 5y ago
These things correlate though. Sure, sometimes we get misses like child car seats, but more often than not outrage-induced regulation manages to make things better.
- pas 5y agoBut that's the point. Outrage based policy itself has a very bad efficacy. All the think of the children shit leads to almost universally bad policy. Cancer outrage? You get the California meaningless stickers. Police brutality? Racism? You get polarizing protests and no real change. Outrage is at best the first step. But it's really the sign of decades (or more) of gridlocked politics.