Ebony Alert passed in California
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It's a core part of leftism. They justify their actions around the moral impetus behind it. I've seen leftists react to failed policy with "at least they tried". And every time a school shooting happens, leftists will justify gun bans with "we have to do something". It's also the reasoning behind the leftist phrase "no bad tactics, only bad targets".
This is a good insight. And most of the time it's not even the result of a sincere, well-meaning but misguided urge to act - rather, they're acting entirely for the purpose of feeling important and superior, or to signal their purity to others.
Change and progress aren't always bad, but a huge amount of the world's problems come from 'doing something' for the sake of doing something, without caring about the consequences.