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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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I view regulations very much like medications for the body, except with a fraction of the attention paid to side effects. Yes, some might work, but how much are you disrupting the rest of the system in invisible ways that might manifest in deadly symptoms in a decade?

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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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I feel like you have a very short view of history. Most regulations are put in place after a private company has abused the free market. You could argue some go overboard. Nothing is perfect though.

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You can't abuse the free market unless you're using coercion, in which case the law is obliged to stop you. Only problem is very few of the regulations we've put in place stop companies from abusing the *law*

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You don’t consider doing things unethically that you know will hurt people to be abusing the free market? E.g. cigarette companies or pharmaceutical companies producing pain killers.