87.4% of statistics are made up.
87.4% of statistics are made up.
Are you objecting to my statement because you think the 33% figure is arbitrary? No need to argue that--it is. But so what? There's some exact figure where a law which is opposed by X+0.1% of the citizenry is a bad law and one opposed by X-0.1% is a good law. The strength of opposition and the nature of the law in question would play such a significant role as to render the exact value of X meaningless.
I would suggest that very few good laws are going to be strongly opposed by even 10% of the population, and that if a law is strongly opposed by that many people, it's likely a bad law. Up the figure to 20% and it becomes even more likely. I'd say that by the time 33% of the people are strongly opposed to a law, it's almost certainly a bad one.
Among other things, if a law is enforced against the strong objection of 33% of the people, those 33% of the people are going to view the government as a tyrannical enemy. If the government passes more than one such law, that view of the government will be even more widespread. A government cannot pass very many such laws before it can only survive through tyranny.