I think it's a confluence of multiple factors. First, lawmakers pass so many bills that they likely get desensitized to the effects of the bills. There is a disconnect between the bill enacting process and the effects on the ground, similar to the "bureaucratic homicide" that occurs during war. Secondly, the types of people that get into office are not the types that get decision paralysis, and are often further along the sociopathy spectrum than most. A third factor is that, other than for a few exceptions like Rand Paul and Bernie Sanders, most vote in a block. And if a powerful legislator has twisted religious ideas about prostitutes needing to be punished on earth even before they get to hell, then they can take advantage of this group behavior and get their legislation passed.
Very insightful. I think this bears additional emphasis.
I think you hit the nail on the head. As a society, we've relied on people making shallow surface level laws to correct deep, tangled problems for too long.
Our system of laws is in dire need of a good pruning back and rearchitecting. IANAL, but I have been doing legal research for a while now, and when I'm reading law, it is very clear to me at least that when you start looking at law as something systematic, you run into diagrams that would make any system architect have a heart attack.
The structures I end up at show a lack of "feed-forward" thinking in their implementations. Namely being structured with little or no thought to consequence, or guidance for interpretation or application built in.
For the non-techies who may not be able to understand my comment, imagine implementing something complex like an internal combustion engine, but never writing a manual or communicating it's specifications. That's what I'm getting at.
And yes, I'm aware that the legislature specifies executive branch entities to do the administrative law elucidation. However, there are far fewer release valves for bad law in those cases or means for changing overly restrictive guidance. Entities are given carte blanche to pass unchallengable "iron fist" level directives that have no recourse EXCEPT an already over-taxed legislature.
