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The law is malleable. All laws will be abused, and by corollary, all laws are societal negotiations, one court room at a time.

Those in the legal field grok this. Those with less experience in the legal field typically fear the law for its seeming black-and-white attribute when it's really a lot of grey.

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People take the worst case because statistically it will happen to someone. You can't average risk in your life like you can with insurance.

Additionally, for laws like this that specifically take away democratic control this argument is entirely moot.

Any claimed benefit or justification is entirely nullified for regular people if their oversight and transparency processes are being negated.

Knightian uncertainty I certainly can. True uncertainty, you typically do assume worst case but that's a risk posture choice.

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