Are you trolling or is this a serious position?
Should we roll back every traffic law, consumer protection, safety standard, science funding, civic policing, or national defense law ever written?
Should we roll back every traffic law, consumer protection, safety standard, science funding, civic policing, or national defense law ever written?
Are you trolling or is this a serious position?
Digressions aside, what value is there in allowing an uninformed person to make impactful decisions on complex matters?
Yes, all of the time. My entire life is making uninformed decisions. I am not a chef - I read reviews of restaurants. I am not a mechanic, I ask my mechanic for car advice. I am not a doctor, I pay them to tell me what's wrong and what treatments to take. Seeking out expertise is a paragon of making wise choices.
2. Seeking out expertise is a paragon of making wise choices. Seeking out moneyed interests is not.
If you were to pass legislation about crash safety for cars, would you not allow input from anyone who knows how cars are manufactured?
Obviously interested parties as well as the general public should be allowed input to the legislative process. However, input should not be solely or even primarily be sought from moneyed interests. The legislature has entire government departments at their disposal and should if need be commission their own research.