For law to truly become effective in changing future behavior, law itself must change. Our lawmakers and the many rule makers who make contracts and organizational rules must fundamentally alter their approach. Rather than respond to each new risk and ambiguity by creating more and more complex rules, they must realize the limits of this approach. If most of our laws and other rules are not known, knowable, or understandable for most people, how can they then come to play a role in shaping our behavior? a different approach is necessary. We must consider which laws and rules truly are needed
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