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I choose to be an optimist. Codification takes time. Patience.

IANAL, so my understanding is naive (at best): law is about striking a balance.

So long as technological progress continues to rearrange society, it'll be a while before things settle down, thereby giving people sufficient time and experience figure out a new acceptable balance.

I probably misremember (or just made up) this factoid: It took Roman's 400 years to codify their laws. So I think we're doing pretty good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codification_(law)



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