India and Medicinal Policy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-19060279

This stinks.

This is precisely why I think that successful policy and government is a lot like the science and execution of medicine.  Every once and awhile, you're going to get crises (such as half your electric grid going off-line) that have to be dealt with in a precise, effective, and, frankly, surgical manner.

The rest of the time, you establish a policy regimen, not unlike that of a drug medicine for a person with a chronic illness, that can be tinkered with and refined as time goes on in order to produce more effective and positive results in the world, that can be experimented with and tested in order to determine their validity.

Otherwise, you're basically just making the world a more difficult place to live in and earning the resentment of the people (and the world) that you're responsible for, socially and ecologically.  This then translates into poorer election results for yourself, or, in the case of dictatorships, the greater possibility for overthrow and conspirators whom you will have a harder time legitimately dealing with.

You don't need to believe me.

This, like science, is just one perspective on it.

But I hypothesize that this is the way that yields the best possible results for us, in spite of the difficulties that we face on a regular basis.

Don't take my word for it.

Think about it for yourselves.

Cause we're all boned if we don't.

Think about it.