I often imagine civilization as a human body, extraordinarily complex, interconnected, host to lots of bacteria. Trying to deliberately modify the body to fix things you don't like is only good in a very narrow set of actions, or else you risk rippling and confusing side effects.
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We live in an overmedicated system, under an accumulating pile of regulations meant to fix our ails, but most of the ails that are being fixed are just side effects of prior regulations. But when a new symptom pops up, we demand another quick fix - simple to understand, direct.
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Imagine how different it would be if we treated lawmaking like medicine; we ran regulatory trials in the smallest possible locations first, we studied those trials, we gradually expanded, and we actively looked for ripple effects and denied regulations that cause too many!
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corporations put absolutely zero care towards quality standards or safety when they're not forced to. Their only incentive is to maximise profit How someone can be so naive that they genuinely think regulations are unnecessary as an adult is beyond me
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The analogy to the human body is flawed, as it assumes somehow society is a self-regulating organism and that "regulation" is some destabilizing intervention, whereas the interventions of governments are no less an intervention than the intervention of any other group
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If this applies to regulations, does it also apply to the introduction of new social norms?
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