alt Hacker NewsI don't think so. Ideally, you still have normal people deciding tradeoffs like today, it's just that the reasoning and the suggested solutions to problems have to be scientifically and logically sound.
The submission[0] right next to this one shows why.
Apparently, in the US, you are now a criminal if you fly drones half a mile from ICE vehicles. Some of which may be unmarked and even if marked, how exactly do you verify no ICE vehicle is in a 0.785 square mile radius? Anybody capable of logical thought sees that this is BS.
(Also, anybody who retained primary school knowledge can calculate the area. But ask a person on the street to do it and watch your faith in humanity fall. Ask them to point out the area on a map and estimate how many cars that would be...)
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Even the lawyer who taught intro to law at my uni always said that the people who most often find contradictions in laws are engineers.
The problems always start when somebody takes an ideology too far. So let's figure out what is too far instead of rejecting the whole thing.