Originally Posted by
merlinextraligh
you miss my point. It’s easy to look at something in hindsight and say we should mandate this or that which again in hindsight might , or might not, have prevented the particular occurrence. My point is that if you look bigger picture, you need to look at actual data, and weigh costs and benefits, not just base policy on a knee jerk reaction to a single anecdote
That's a major reason I hate this kind of thread--it usually comes down to arguing about the specifics of the anecdote as rhetorical support for people's personal policy objectives.