Playing what if is kind of like playing pretend.
Background: When you make a new product or want to add or make changes to your current product, you go through a series of steps…usually about 6 distinct steps before you arrive at a saleable product. The first step is a proof of concept. This step for a manufactured electronic product is generally taking a bunch of parts and kluge them together with wires, maybe a portion of a handmade printed circuit board, screens, comms, etc. All you are trying to prove in this step is can you make it work. The result can be a really ugly setup, but you have proved one way or the other without much cost that it is viable. Fast food restaurants have a somewhat similar scheme. After they have perfected a new recipe, they roll the new product out in a very limited geography in order to judge acceptance by their customers before rolling it out across all of their restaurants.
Let’s pretend: I think that before the government takes large steps, it should try to assess the impact on the citizens from the decision they are about to make. For example, I hear all too frequently that we should defund the police. Most, if not all, of these calls to defund the police come from those who have private security. So, let’s employ the steps of new product development before we roll out the defund the police idea across the nation. I suggest we start with all those who have private security and are also calling out to defund the police. Let them get rid of their private security for a year and see how it works out for them. They are also not allowed to call the police since the police won’t be there if they are defunded, If they make it without incident, great. Then, maybe we should move to the next step in defunding the police. If they don’t make it without incident, we will have a pretty good idea that defunding the police might not be such a good thing. However, in either event do not think that taking away my protection while you still have yours will sit well with me or the public at large. Put your security where your mouth is.
PS (off topic): How come we are yet to hear who the leaker of the Dobbs decision is? The court and all its employees is just not very large. We should have been told by now who did this dastardly thing. Could it be because it was one of the Justice’s herself?