Is to look at peoples’ reactions to what you’re doing. If, for example, you decided that you wanted to clean up the MPs’ expenses system and every MP then started howling about how we mere ignorant citizenry aren’t supposed to control them then we’d know that we were on the right track. Similarly, if every criminal in the country (to the extent that this is a different group from MPs) starts to complain about the length of sentences after just and righteous trials then you would at least begin to suspect that you might have created sentences which have a deterrent effect.
Tim Worstall, “One way to know that you’re doing the right thing”, Adam Smith Institute blog, 2013-03-02
March 2, 2013
QotD: “One way to know that you’re doing the right thing”
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