There is a basic principle that applies equally to interventions into the brain/mind system and into the economy: They always result in unintended harmful consequences.
The idea here is that citizens do not have to agree on everything but only on those principles that apply to the basic structure of society.
What are the principles that apply here?
Those are the street principles that apply".
It is an opportunity to amend it so that at last the laws on the right of governments to intrude into our private communications conform with the basic principles that have always applied in the past – and should still.
But there are a few basic principles that it should apply everywhere.
"There's two basic principles that we try to apply in order to protect online privacy," Jan Camenisch, an IBM researcher who is part of the ABC4Trust project, told BBC News.
The basic principle that is applied by the courts is that where statute grants a power to a decision-maker for purpose A, it is unlawful for the decision-maker to exercise the power for purpose B, because the decision-maker would be using the power for an unauthorized purpose.
'I would go back to the basic principles, that incentives matter, that tax rates matter, and apply those principles,' Taylor told an audience at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
