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I wish there were a “No, And Stop Asking” law where you couldn’t propose a law again within X years after it fails to pass. I know a million reasons why that’s
by kstrauser 1y ago
I wish there were a “No, And Stop Asking” law where you couldn’t propose a law again within X years after it fails to pass.
I know a million reasons why that’s probably impossible, starting with “what makes it the same law?”, but I can still wish we had one.
- pqtyw 1y agoSo if a party which rejects some policy loses the election (possible even directly because of that) their opponents who always supported that law wouldn't be allowed to vote on it again? Seems extremely easy to abuse...
- kstrauser 1y agoI did mention that it had a million problems.
- monomers 1y agoIt would be possible to proactively pass a law that is incompatible with future attempts, right? E.g. in this case something like a "right to chat secrecy" law.
- dragonwriter 1y agoYes, but whatever law you pass that is incompatible with future attempts can just have its repeal included as part of future attempts.
- godelski 1y agoYes but so would a "stop asking" option. I don't find this as a flaw, instead it's a pretty good feature. Everything should be able to be revisited, if only because times change and there's unintended consequences. Just because you can still drive over speed bumps and knock over road blocks doesn't mean that they aren't effective tools.
- 1718627440 1y agoWe already have this. It's even a law you can't change easily. We call it constitution, what ever that is. It obviously doesn't matter here.
- the_biot 1y agoWell, this kind of thing really belongs in a constitution, where it would block any attempt to pass creeping mass-surveillance laws like Chat Control.