[governance] regulating the digital space - whose laws apply, and whose do not

[Norbert Bollow]

Daniel Kalchev <daniel at digsys.bg> wrote:
> No Government regulates the Common Sense, because it is incompatible 
> with Governments.
> It is a private thing. Shared by billions of humans.

I find this concept of Common Sense as a kind of non-legalistic
law, and the observation about the very often strained relationship
between this Common Sense and governments, very interesting.

I'm not quite ready though to accept the assertion about Common
Sense being incompatible with governments. Definitely Common Sense
is incompatible with any government attempts to regulate it. And I
would also accept that Common Sense is incompatible with any kind
of government that lacks humility. Maybe the kind of human nature
that we all share makes it humanly impossible to create a kind of
government that does not lack humility, a kind of government that
would respect Common Sense as supreme guidance for all of its
activites. On the other hand, maybe it is possible? For many
problems that were formerly considered impossible to solve, eventually
a solution was invented. And in any case, some governments do a much
better job at not beeing too far away from Common Sense than others.

Greetings,
Norbert


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