Restricting ourselves to actual injuries makes it more challenging to use a stream of hypothetical cases to effectively rewrite the law based on imaginary injur

Restricting ourselves to actual injuries makes it more challenging to use a stream of hypothetical cases to effectively rewrite the law based on imaginary injuries and forces us to deal with reality as we find it which is why we have centuries of jurisprudence with that standard being applied and no reason to abandon the standard other than to help the judges serve in their new role as super legislators the populace isn't entitled to vote out.