Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enoug — Philip K. Howard, The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America
Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enoug — Philip K. Howard, The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America
Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enoug — Philip K. Howard, The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America
Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enoug — Philip K. Howard, The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America
Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enoug — Philip K. Howard, The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America
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Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enough. Uncertainty, the ultimate evil that modern law seeks to eradicate, generally fosters cooperation, not the opposite.

— Philip K. Howard, The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America
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