I found a very interesting half baked idea by a redditor in response to new harsh privacy invading laws after the Paris tragedy

> If they want to make a new law they should make one that says no new laws are allowed to be made immediately following a national tragedy.

This would give the media the time to recover their posture and provide proper critical look at laws that are usually ramroaded during these kinds of periods.
-- mofosyne, Nov 17 2015

original comment by No_big_whoop https://www.reddit....tempting_to/cx3rujm
[mofosyne, Nov 17 2015]

A nother option would be to pass a law saying that new laws can only be enacted after a 9 month delay.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Nov 17 2015


//no new laws are allowed to be made immediately following a national tragedy//

So instead we should spend that time debating the meaning of the word "immediately"?
-- Wrongfellow, Nov 22 2015


Shirley this just a hardware fix. Simply applying two electrodes to politico's lower legs and applying a modest current somehow geared to the news?
-- not_morrison_rm, Nov 22 2015


[+] ... although you do realize that we should probably wait a few months before enacting the "anti-kneejerk act" to follow the spirit of this new legislation.
-- ixnaum, Nov 23 2015


Darn, I thought a loophole had been found to the Patellar reflex.
-- wjt, Nov 23 2015


The crisis is ever the friend of the state.
-- 21 Quest, Nov 23 2015


A mere Law wouldn't be good enough, because the same knee-jerk reaction that might pass a bad law could also overturn a simple anti-kneejerk Law. This Idea needs to be at the level of a Constitutional-Amendment in its effectiveness.
-- Vernon, Nov 24 2015



random, halfbakery