Thin rules and thick rules have both existed since antiquity, and they can both flourish under different kinds of polities, albeit for different reasons: a democracy may favour thin rules in the name of equality, while a dictatorship may use them to curtail freedom.
Wherever thin rules emerge, they presuppose a world without surprises.
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