Very, very true. So often, just looking at one specific situation, it's so easy to say "This should be stopped! Someone needs to do something about this! It should be illegal!" And yes, maybe the problems and their solutions seem so obvious, just looking at that one situation/person that needs to be dealt with.
The difficulty is, more often than not "solutions" designed to address one problem trample in an unjustified way on the rights and freedoms of people who have nothing to do with that problem. Or the "solution" is used as justification/precedent to introduce other laws or regulations... And it turns into a mess of consequences that were never foreseen by the people crying out for government intervention in dealing with some truly crazy or malicious idiots.
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Date: 2011-05-28 08:51 pm (UTC)From:The difficulty is, more often than not "solutions" designed to address one problem trample in an unjustified way on the rights and freedoms of people who have nothing to do with that problem. Or the "solution" is used as justification/precedent to introduce other laws or regulations... And it turns into a mess of consequences that were never foreseen by the people crying out for government intervention in dealing with some truly crazy or malicious idiots.
*sigh*