People want insurance. People are not rational about risk taking. This is why insurance companies can exist. And perhaps it explains why people cling so desperately to their governments. Recalling that public space gets trashed because no one owns it, notice that the public forum is itself a public space.
People can advocate bad policy and never pay the consequences.
The act of lobbying for a law to protect a special interest constitutes, in my opinion, littering in a public space. Policy debate gets littered with all kinds of trash ideas. In this vein notice one of the cherished institutions of the democratic state, the voting booth. This institution allows people to trash the public space with their own selfish programs. The voting booth provides a sanctuary in which the voter can participate in ugly crimes, without fear of retribution.