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>But in reality, good regulation is good, and bad regulation is bad.

No one brick in the road to hell is bad. But you can definitely pave a road to hell with the accumulation of "positive" changes. People tend to define positive over too short a timeline or too narrowly.



No one square meter of nature is bad. But you can definitely doom people to horribly die because there is a natural swamp between them and the hospital. People tend to define 'natural' too narrowly, forgetting that 'things that are natural' includes cocaine, tapeworms, rape, birth defects, the Plague and cancer


Are you implying that individual regulations all have some inherent goodness on their own?

They're just rules we make for ourselves. There's nothing special about them. Opinions like that are why we can't fix messes like this.




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