Humans face ignorance of facts and indeterminacy of aim when regulating conduct
Evidence
It is a feature of the human predicament (and so of the legislative one) that we labour under two connected handicaps whenever we seek to regulate, unambiguously and in advance, some sphere of conduct by means of general standards to be used without further official direction on particular occasions. The first handicap is our relative ignorance of fact: the second is our relative indeterminacy of aim. — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 368
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 368
- XREF: connects to: People forget their purpose while being carried by societal pressures. — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 179; Chaos represents unexplored territory and ignorance. — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 196; People are poorly equipped to name precise bodily emotional states. — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition: A Guide…, 124 (+7 more)
Broader Connections
- Knowledge of the social world makes that world inherently unstable
#corroborates(0.78) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 115 - People forget their purpose while being carried by societal pressures.
#expands(0.75) — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 179