Sunday’s Los Angeles Times brought us as glorious an example of ivory-tower impracticality as ever put forth, this one by a pair of university professors who, if one may judge from their curricula vitae, are well steeped in academic theory but lacking sufficient practical experience to realize what they propose is manifestly absurd.We talked about this here.
And oh gee, The Times is in trouble. What a pity.
[Via Michael G]
Why not punish the AGENTS of crime directly, not the tools?
ReplyDeleteOr make GOVERNMENTS financially accountable for ALLOWING "negative social costs" to continue.
Because that would eliminate most of the problem that is the wedge they would use to separate us from our freedom.
And there's that sovereign immunity thing. I can't imagine any government changing procedure to allow itself to be held accountable. It's always the People who ultimately mess up their perfect plan. "I'm from FEMA; I don't NEED to slow down!" [Thump, bump]