We often reach for new laws when something feels wrong — but rarely stop to ask what happens next. This post explores why people don’t respond to policy the way we expect, how concern turns into moral panic, and why evidence helps virtue work better, not worse.
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Lets Rethink Policy-Making: Why Virtue Works Best with Evidence
By this point in the series, one thing should be fairly clear.
Free speech doesn’t disappear because someone wakes up one morning and decides to ban it. It erodes because systems slowly stop rewarding tolerance, disagreement, and long-term thinking — and start rewarding caution, control, and short-term risk management.
That brings us to something we’ve only circled so far, but haven’t named directly:
How power is distributed matters as much as what the law says.
