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Innovation in a Regulatory Labyrinth
“Regulations don’t always work as planned,” says Tom W. Bell, Professor of Chapman University’s Dale E. Fowler School of Law in
They Say It Can’t Be Done, a documentary [1] highlighting four world-changing technologies and how the people working in those fields view the current regulatory environment. Toward the start of the film, Professor Bell says that when people advocate for regulations, “[t]hey don’t necessarily want more regulations. They want problems fixed.” However, “regulations don’t always work as planned” and can be “like trying to fix a watch with a sledgehammer sometimes.”
An Equality Worth Defending
In our Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote of self-evident truths “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” and condemned government that was destructive of those ends.
Given how important that document was, with its signers putting all of those ends at risk, there had to be a high level of agreement about what “created equal” meant (sadly, with the exception of slaves). Since then, however, discussion of equality has become a source of confusion and contradiction.
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