I think I agree more with your comments about not having a game plan than with "rulesets require outcomes they are designed to (attempt) achieve"--I think that the vast majority of economic and political rules and law are designed--to the extent that they are designed at all--not to achieve a desired outcome, but to prevent an outcome that appears to some subset of society to be undesirable. It is a vitally important distinction--the methodology is reactive rather than proactive, and the resulting "system" is cobbled-together rather than planned, fundamentally broken rather than basically functional.
Had "rulesets require" been, rather, "rulesets should require", I think we would be in vehement agreement.
You can't blame the Phillies. MLB is broken as a competitive sport, and the Yankees have been the primary factor in breaking it.
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Date: 2009-11-03 12:30 am (UTC)I think I agree more with your comments about not having a game plan than with "rulesets require outcomes they are designed to (attempt) achieve"--I think that the vast majority of economic and political rules and law are designed--to the extent that they are designed at all--not to achieve a desired outcome, but to prevent an outcome that appears to some subset of society to be undesirable. It is a vitally important distinction--the methodology is reactive rather than proactive, and the resulting "system" is cobbled-together rather than planned, fundamentally broken rather than basically functional.
Had "rulesets require" been, rather, "rulesets should require", I think we would be in vehement agreement.
You can't blame the Phillies. MLB is broken as a competitive sport, and the Yankees have been the primary factor in breaking it.