"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly,while bad people will find a way around the laws."
I'm not sure that Plato quite got it right . . . probably we all need laws just so we know what is expected of us. However, I'll admit that one of my frustrations in working at a public university is all the rules we have to follow related to travel and finance. It seems like many of these policies have been written to protect against the most incompetent, most dishonest employee that could be found at any level of state government in any state agency. I appreciate the need to guard the public's interest and care for our limited resources. Common sense, however, has been thrown out the window and replaced with mindless micromanagement, which often costs us time and energy (and therefore, in a roundabout way, money) that could be better devoted to other efforts. Ah, the joys of bureaucracy.
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