Brackets Are a Bad Way to Regulate

Continuous distributions are everywhere - for virtually everything we care about, a little is a little better (or worse), and a lot is a lot better (or worse). This presents a problem - we need to create rules that reasonably and fairly apply across these continuums, where the degree to which a thing possesses a trait makes a difference to the reasonable treatment of it. Going 1m/h over the limit, and going 150 in a 40 zone are both “speeding”, yet we must punish these things differently.