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Rating Congress by "number of bills passed" is as smart as rating coders based on number of lines of code written.
by MaggieL 13y ago
Rating Congress by "number of bills passed" is as smart as rating coders based on number of lines of code written.
- bluthru 13y agoI get what you're driving at, but the analogy doesn't quite work. We want software to perform functions and we don't care about the amount of lines of code to achieve this. We also want our government to perform functions, and law is how they achieve this. Your stance would make sense if we were in a state that didn't need improvement.
- MaggieL 13y agoWe don't want government to simply "perform functions". The best government is the least government. Like code, we want no more government than is absolutely necessary, and I say we have way too much government already. Your stance would make sense only if adding more laws would improve things.
- downer90 13y agoBest comment ever. The exact same words had formed in my mind, and then there they were, already written out for me.