Career Women in Japan Find a Blocked Path
6th August 2007
NYT. Why is it that people have such a hard time realizing that just passing a law is not enough to solve a problem?
We see this all the time. There are umpteen different laws on the books addressing problem X, which has not gotten any better, and so they want to pass umpteen more. Hint: Unless you change the culture, the law will not be enforced. Laws that are not enforced might as well not exist. (Actually, that’s not true: It reduces respect for all laws, even the good ones.)
Prohibition is the poster child for this concept, but the immigration “reform” issue is as fresh as yesterday’s headlines. To solve the problem, we don’t need new laws; we just need people to enforce the laws we have. But the ruling class doesn’t want to do that: They don’t want to spend the money, and they like having cheap illegal immigrants to mow their lawns, pick their crops, and mind their children, and besides if we make them citizens they’re so stupid they’ll vote for us.
Sheesh.