Suppose that you, an ordinary person, open your door and start choking on yellow smoke. Do you just want to do common-sense things, like lower the detection threshold for hexamethyldecawhatever? Or do you want to ban tetraethylpentawhatever, which is an inevitable byproduct of manufacturing baby formula, and millions of babies would die if you banned it?
Any pollution legislation must be made of specific policies. Everyone would be against a bill that devastated the baby formula supply chain for no benefit. And everyone would support a magical bill that cleaned the skies with no extra hardship on industry. In between, there are just a million different tradeoffs; some are good, others bad.
You can only support or oppose particular plans. A police officer sees a mentally ill homeless person and assesses them as disruptive. They bring this person to the ER of a hospital with a psychiatric ward. In the ER, psychiatrists evaluate the person.
Psychiatrists know lots of tricks for getting the evaluation result they want. Again, in reality this is all vibes. The patient gets committed to the hospital.
The hospital makes an appointment with a judge to legally evaluate the commitment order. But realistically the appointment is days out depending on the state , and by then the patient may well be gone anyway, in which case the hearing can be cancelled. This is part of why everyone feels comfortable making commitment decisions on vibes. If the patient seems psychotic, the doctors start them on antipsychotic drugs. These take about weeks to make people less psychotic.
