Comment by dmpk2k
4 hours ago
Both can be true: over-regulation and bad regulation. And the West (especially the EU) is arguably suffering from both to various degrees.
At some point a regulation is no longer worth the weight in the overhead it imposes. Even if all regulation was effective, at some point the collective burden would be too high.
Sadly, this also means that some bad behaviour is inescapable at the margins. There are always a few people looking for an angle to make a quick buck in a certain way, yet not enough for a regulation to be supported.
It reminds of the "The optimal amount of Fraud is non-zero" that once ended up on HN frontpage : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32701913
I wonder, is there a legal principle to call-out someone who is trying to exploit the word of the law against the spirit of the law ?