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Who owns the tomato? Who owns the land that the tomato is grown on? You can't just willy nilly confiscate other's property...
by beambot 10y ago
Who owns the tomato? Who owns the land that the tomato is grown on? You can't just willy nilly confiscate other's property...
- ben_jones 10y agoBut the government can and should have the right to inspect a tomato (not necessarily a specific tomato) if all the tomatoes in that field are slated to go direct to consumers, right? Similarly, what about testing for drug quality? You could even extrapolate it out to the SEC's right to examine a private financial transaction in order to determine legality. Or the IRS's right to inspect one's taxes to determine compliance. Point is (IMO) there is a need put on government by society to bypass some of our "Inalienable" rights. In most cases this societal decision is necessary and makes sense, and I'm arguing that code inspection of life-critical systems is a reasonable example of such a case.