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Comment by redler

This is not unlike how an opposing party will criticize a bill based on its number of typed pages. The thump of a couple of inches of paper on a podium makes for great and reductive theater. It's likewise naïve to consider the number of regulations to be a direct barometer of the goodness or badness of regulation in general. Next we'll see the refactoring of existing regulations into smaller or larger components to affect their numerological residue.

Wanton numerological regulation slashers should be wary of Chesterton's Fence[1].

On the scale of meaningfulness, this idea is somewhere between the Dow Jones Industrial Average and middle school kids playing with margins, spacing, and font size to satisfy a teacher's page-length requirement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence

parent redler 10 years ago

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