Neither did those people who began the French Revolution and this is essentially what they tried to do - they did not envision the terror that emerged and it scared them when it arrived. The entire constitution of France lurched backwards and forwards to the great detriment of the public across the 1790s. You cannot simply scrap and re-write the laws, not without ending up with Robspierre or Saint-Just... both terrifying men in their own right. These people emerge out of the chaos and they have their own agendas.
And yes, logic and common sense but prevail.... but whose? And how? I am a libertarian, I think it's common sense to legalise drugs and prostitution but there are plenty of people who disagree and for very good reason. Does this treat women unfairly? Or does the democratic withholding of a profession older than civilisation represent oppression of their rights to do as they please? There is no simple answer. Democracy is a disagreement in real time and the only way to socially progress.... I would also timidly suggest each generation moves slightly more towards liberal than the generation before and this process is only upset when someone tries to lurch the demos one way or the other.
I disagree with the outcome of the repeal of Roe v Wade but I also disagree with the way it was implemented in the first place. It led to a 50 years arms race to stack the supreme court.... it made the US experiment wobble. It's still wobbling. I cannot differentiate between laws I agree with and laws I disagree with as a good measure of whether the law is good or not, I must only stick to the process. That's a harder ask because it requires everyone to also agree to laws they don't like and that they think are harmful.
The left and the right both want to implement their agenda and both believe they are on the side of historical good. For those of us that are in the centre both should be seen as a threat.... because, as has been made abundantly clear to me many times on Medium, centre ground moderates are also the enemy.... we are also the 'bad people'. Polemic thinking tends to create heroes and villains and no dissent can be brooked because it threatens the message. This is how totalitarianism works.
If you're interested in seeing how the centre ground stacks up against 'tolerance at all costs' then I recommend reading this from 2021 where I have a fairly honest exchange with one of the most well known LGBTQ+ writers on this site. https://medium.com/p/86d6cb79aa11
