IlyaShpitser comments on Article on confirmation bias for the Smith Alumnae Quarterly - Less Wrong Discussion
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You can't drink alcohol on a beach in New Jersey (without a permit). Why? Because some idiot was unreasonable once, and someone complained, and now there is a universal quantifier in place.
It's hard to draw lines against scoundrel behavior in a way that avoids undesirable side effects for reasonable people (law is hard because it is a kind of applied analytic philosophy).