One should not pass laws that invite public contempt, if one wishes to continue to have a working system of laws.
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One should not pass laws that invite public contempt, if one wishes to continue to have a working system of laws.
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Our federal legislature is getting more partisan, so that less communication and refinement is taking place in the laws getting passed. (Also a factor, the laws run 1000+ pages, and you get 14 hours to decide how to vote.)
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"You can't make a device that reads our books aloud! That violates copyright and cuts into our audiobook sales!"
"But you haven't released any of these as audiobooks."
"What's that got to do with it?"
That's far from the only example, though. There's the CPSIA, which is so poorly thought out it will potentially destroy entire market segments. Even the rare well-thought-out bills are usually so stuffed with pork and festooned with non-germane amendments and riders that the end result is contemptible. And we won't even get into the practice of burying offensive crap that its writers know would never pass on its own in the middle of vast omnibus bills that they know no-one's going to get time to read until after they've already been voted on. Writing laws in Congress has largely become the art of putting one over on the voters without the voters figuring out exactly who did it.
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That hits the nail on the head, exactly!
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