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Lawmakers also make and pass laws because it's their job, not because a new law is needed. They feel it's literally their job to come up with new bills to pass, for no reason other than "it's my job".

Imagine a society so stable it doesn't need new laws or rules. All the elected representatives would just sit around all day and twiddle their thumbs. A bad look in their eyes.

This is how it should be of course.

>>mortar+(OP)
However we are not in a stable society like that.

Things change - e.g. 50 years ago no online chats, no drones, very little terrorism, travel was more costly and slower, medical drugs were less efficient, live span was shorter.

>>pasc18+u4
I agree with your broader point - but this article is about the UK and I can assure you, 50 years ago the UK did not have "very little terrorism"

>>michae+pd
Same in the US. It was not a good time. The FBI recorded five bombings a day in 1971-72. Airliners were being hijacked once a week at the peak around then.

>>michae+pd
OK I should have said 60 years