Common law often contains more justice than formal law. Common sense offers more wisdom than that of many experts. Drilling down into one aspect of an issue can blind us to other important considerations. In the old days, this was known as “throwing the baby out with the bathwater” .
With so many experts, so much insecurity, such heavily polarized social viewpoints, bathwater seems to be all around us. Murky, dirty, time to clean it up. Whoops – there goes another infant into the hedge !
The problem really is that in a complicated world, the “new” water is never clean. Ending one kind of discrimination usually just replaces one Injustice with another. Eliminating one type of energy simply reveals flaws in alternatives. Forbidding sexual “harassment” at work can result in no normal romances at all for employees. The list goes on, quagmires of unintended consequences, multiplying endlessly, worse by the day as overreaction sets in .
Right now might be the worst, as an overly interconnected global village reacts to every piece of gossip as if it were holy writ, and in which power only arrives for the most extreme positions. Society has not yet had time to adjust common law and common sense to the new chaos .
Perhaps it never will .
Oh dear, another screaming baby !
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