Interesting. Although I tend to attribute things like this to ignorance and not malice. < Helps me pretend people aren't so bad.

The people who make decisions often don't know what they're deciding about (how can the same person make a good decision about child education, policing standards and public hygiene?) and I think our modern philosophy that a "bad decision made early is better than no decision" amplifies this.

There are some decisions in life that have to made carefully so we don't ask for forgiveness.