http://www.overcomingbias.com/2019/05/simplerules.html … @robinhanson's explanation for why people prefer discretion to simple rules is overconfidence -- everyone assumes *they'd* be the one to have special pull with decision-makers, or wants to pretend they are. "Let's play fair" is a loser's position.
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I can think of alternative explanations though. 1.) Low trust: nobody believes a "fair" rule would actually be applied fairly, they aren't considering the possibility of a genuinely impartial rule (and sometimes they're right)
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2.) Ignorance or lack of intelligence: the idea of fair, impartial rules is a bit abstract, and has to be taught, and not everybody gets taught and not everybody copes well with abstraction.
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(I sometimes think that if civics isn't taught in schools people will eventually grow up without actually grokking the idea of "checks on power" being a good thing *independent* of who's in power.)
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People don't understand this now
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