Big Foot
When we reviewed Neal McCluskey’s case against national standards a few weeks back, we thought he just meant education. Turns out McCluskey is against all standards, from the ruler to the mile to the gallon. “What really is a foot?” he asks. “And whose foot are we talking about, anyway? Think of all the different feet that history has cited as the original ‘foot’: King Henry I, Charlemagne, Hercules, and Emperor Qin Shi Huang, just for starters. Yet there’s no empirical evidence supporting any of these as the genuine ‘foot.’” And even if there were, he goes on to argue, “We’d get better feet if people had more choices among them. We don’t need prescriptive measures of length. The marketplace will decide how far it is from here to there or there to here.”...Read it here.