Philosophy Now Forum

If you don't know what the government is trying to do, there is no way to judge whether they are accomplishing it and therefore no grounds upon which to base a complaint. All laws and regulations must be explicit in what the end result should be and you must be meaningfully able (not covered in layers of expense or bureaucracy) to contend them based on their lack of success. Without understanding how laws go wrong in very particular ways it's particularly hard to get a handle on making them better, and without lawmakers understanding the dynamics of what they're doing it's impossible for them to write good law.