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While that's obviously a very good point, one could also argue that this is mostly due to law enforcement and culture. We live in a society where murdering someone gets you outcast pretty easily, and on top of that thrown in jail. Politicians ultimately only wrote down what is a large cultural consensus.

The problems start when politicians decide over smaller things that not everyone can agree on. I mean, damn, they'd be more than incompetent if they didn't get laws regarding murder right.

The latest screw-up of european politicians (the same who are responsible for GDPR) is the european copyright reform, which just shows a complete lack of both technical understanding and willingness to listen to experts who do understand the situation.



> law enforcement

And where do those laws come from?

I'm not pretending the issues with politics and politicians do not exist, or that they are not enormous. However, a statement like "they have no good days" says more about one's own unwillingness to be politically active than anything else in my opinion.




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