You're just encapsulating reality properly. Laws go with what they go with, they're like a part of specific things.
For example, if it were impossible to create laws regarding traffic signs, it would still be possible to achieve a similar 4-way intersection, with cars stopping for each other - it would have to physically prevent passage from one side to the other, alternative the open direction, like gates or whatever. Can you imagine if that were at every intersection?
Or you can just put up 3 lights on a timer, and a bit of law and add it to the list of stuff the system handles.
So complaining about "laws for every little thing" is a really poor way of looking at things. What maritime traffic laws apply to you? or hazardous waste laws? or commercial construction laws? or banking regulation laws? etvcetc.
One answer is "all of them" but the other is "none of them". They're really part of that aspect of activity, not really part of one long codebook of everything you have to obey all the time.
You can go weeks without even thinking about the law. But if you start do something regulated you haven't done before, it might be your first thought. This is as it should be - the law is like an API for a friendly reality.
Just look at places with total lawlessness and lack of rule of law. That is not a preferable starting point for any project or endeavor you might conceivably participate in.
> For example, if it were impossible to create laws regarding traffic signs, it would still be possible to achieve a similar 4-way intersection, with cars stopping for each other - it would have to physically prevent passage from one side to the other, alternative the open direction, like gates or whatever.
In complex organized sports like football (association or American, take your pick), there are lots of rules about the movement of players, the flow of the game, etc. that are generally followed, and penalties are generally well enforced when the rules are not followed. And yet there are no laws behind these rules. It would appear that complex rules can be created and enforced by mechanisms other than law.
OP's beef was with the existence of complex rules - not that the complex rules have force of law. You and the other respondent gave examples of where complex rules will arise even if the state doesn't come up with them. Presumably the "coder in Sacha" would hate all those "if/else" statements just as much.
But they just don't apply to the OP - unless the OP becomes a football coach or starts operating a fishery, he can just ignore them.
(I did mean to start my original comment "You're just not encapsulating reality properly".)
Just look at places with total lawlessness and lack of rule of law. That is not a preferable starting point for any project or endeavor you might conceivably participate in.
Yes, but the alternative to a huge number of laws is not necessarily total lawlessness and lack of rule of law.
And in fact, laws are not even the only way of regulating activities - the are plenty of other ways of setting and enforcing rules. See the work of Elinor Ostrom, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics†, on the the community-based governance of the commons.
For example, if it were impossible to create laws regarding traffic signs, it would still be possible to achieve a similar 4-way intersection, with cars stopping for each other - it would have to physically prevent passage from one side to the other, alternative the open direction, like gates or whatever. Can you imagine if that were at every intersection?
Or you can just put up 3 lights on a timer, and a bit of law and add it to the list of stuff the system handles.
So complaining about "laws for every little thing" is a really poor way of looking at things. What maritime traffic laws apply to you? or hazardous waste laws? or commercial construction laws? or banking regulation laws? etvcetc.
One answer is "all of them" but the other is "none of them". They're really part of that aspect of activity, not really part of one long codebook of everything you have to obey all the time.
You can go weeks without even thinking about the law. But if you start do something regulated you haven't done before, it might be your first thought. This is as it should be - the law is like an API for a friendly reality.
Just look at places with total lawlessness and lack of rule of law. That is not a preferable starting point for any project or endeavor you might conceivably participate in.