• DrinkMonkey@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Why do you believe that judges (or even juries made of lay people) can make sense of the very things that you’re so confident legislators or regulators cannot?

    I’m not saying regulation is perfect, and as a result, certainly there is a role for judicial review. But come on, man…lots of non sequiturs and straw dogs in your argument.

    • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Quite often, juries don’t have to rule on technical matters. Juries will have available internal communications of the company, testimonies of the engineers working on the project etc. If safety concerns were being ignored, you can usually find enough witnesses and documents proving so.

      On the other hand, how do you even begin to regulate something that is only in the process of being invented? What would the regulation look like?