[noobker]

> it's difficult to determine where to set the regulatory "dial."

I think about this a lot and have come to this thought: you - specifically - won't get to set the dial at all.

Too many political philosophies completely ignore the other for the sake of a perfect solution. This framing of a knob to dial extended imagines a whole switchboard of regulations that can be tuned or turned off. The Democracy video games (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_(video_game)) use this metaphor as their core game mechanic.

But the reality is that the Other(s) gets to act during and in response to your actions.

All this is to say that if politics is setting a knob on a control panel with a precise tuning in mind, reality is an annoying rodent running behind the panel and swapping wires with reckless abandon.