{"id":3112,"date":"2010-03-15T12:50:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T16:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3112"},"modified":"2010-03-15T13:22:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T17:22:53","slug":"qotd-process-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/03\/15\/qotd-process-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Process matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Libertarians are process people, something that our political opponents find impossible to believe can be real, rather than disingenuous.  So when I say that I think Lawrence v. Texas might be the right result morally but the wrong result legally, it must be that I secretly want sodomy to be illegal, or at the very least don&#8217;t care.  Or when I am troubled by government intervening in the Chrysler bankruptcy process, it&#8217;s because I hate unions.  And of course, when I am against post-hoc legal judgments against bankers or their bonuses, it&#8217;s just because I&#8217;m an apologist for rich people.<\/p>\n<p>But to a libertarian, process matters.  Having a good process is better than getting a good outcome, because a good process is one that maximizes your chances of getting good outcomes over time.  <\/p>\n<p>Megan McArdle, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2009\/12\/the-process-of-passing-health-care\/32462\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Process of Passing Health Care&#8221;, <em>The Atlantic<\/em><\/a>, 2009-12-22<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libertarians are process people, something that our political opponents find impossible to believe can be real, rather than disingenuous. So when I say that I think Lawrence v. Texas might be the right result morally but the wrong result legally, it must be that I secretly want sodomy to be illegal, or at the very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,9,10,53,41],"tags":[86,162],"class_list":["post-3112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-law","category-liberty","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-criticism","tag-socializedmedicine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-Oc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3114,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions\/3114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}