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Comment by jpadkins | Hacker News Reader

not all laws are good. criticism should be encouraged, so we make the laws better.

Criticism is good, encouraging to break the law and glorification of those to do, in general, is not good in my books.

It does not work like this. People will not simply criticise new laws that they feel are unjust and then wait for changes.

They will simply ignore them. Lawmakers have to carefully consider this and they generally do it.

I suspect that if people weren't willing to break the law we'd probably still have alcohol prohibition. Making a law unenforceable is a very effective way of changing it.

Fair enough.

It's a whole lot more difficult to change/remove laws than it is to add them. Maybe not "technically", but it seems as if they gather momentum by being implemented, and relied on by a multitude of parties, that they essentially become entrenched.

Not to mention the fact that we don't hold people accountable for questionable outcomes after the laws are enacted. We're essentially stabbing in the dark, expecting to have a more "accurate" stab the next time around using previous experience. Social policies, and their results are inherently grey, and we should treat the laws that surround them as such.

While true, I don't think this is ideal. Nor should we say it's acceptable. Perhaps there are solutions like capping the quantity, length and jargon of laws as a whole.

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