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There really must be a law for everything? That's a slave mentality right there.
by elcct 10y ago
There really must be a law for everything? That's a slave mentality right there.
- adamlett 10y agoNot quite. It's not that there must be a law for everything, it's that there are laws for many things, and often for good reasons. It's not that we always need to regulate new things because new means risky. It's that many new things are actually old things in new guises, and we already know (or should know) what to be concerned about.
- omnimus 10y agoParadox is that US still has no regulations concerning digital privacy, big data and user protection.
- mirekrusin 10y ago...at the same time granting patents on double clicking.
- manigandham 10y agoThe internet moves fast, progress is being made. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/10/27/the-fcc-just-passed-sweeping-new-rules-to-protect-your-online-privacy/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/10/27...
- pjc50 10y agoPeople have paid good money to make sure there aren't such laws. It only has privacy laws based on incidents that have affected people of sufficient status: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act (and note the little coda in there about Netflix)
- marincounty 10y agoWe have a law for pretty much everything. Food laws--fine. Most laws--fine. But in the United States, the fines/fees for breaking these laws are just unfair. The same old analogy comming up. A rich man get's a $500 red light ticket. He tells the wife over dinner. With the poor man gets the same ticket; it just might be the last straw. I'm getting so tired of writing that senerio, but I guarantee someone's rent is in jeopardy right now because of the excessive penalty. I don't mind laws. I don't like being overcharged for the infraction. We live in a society where the rich can do pretty much as they please. I don't think the founding fathers would approve. For awhile, I belive the 8th admendment has been grossly violated. Laws--fine, but tie fees/punishment to income. It's way overdue. I believe Sweden took the plunge?
- Quarrelsome 10y agono, law is social contract between peers, not slave=>master.
- JanezStupar 10y agoA contract you had no participation in drafting and never signed, yet you are compelled at gunpoint to uphold it. Nice spin tho.
- Quarrelsome 10y agowell if every generation had to write their laws from scratch we'd never get anything done. You have to accept that as someone coming into an already occupied world that some rules will have been made prior to your birth. You can campaign against them but just don't expect not to be challenged if you break them.
- bbcbasic 10y agoDamn law of gravity!
- JanezStupar 10y agoIf you are defining law of gravity in terms of "contract" then you are having some issues.
- orf 10y agoJust like the constitution.
- laksjd 10y agoAs a minor, your parents decided for you, but once you're 18 nothing is stopping you from either trying to re-negotiate the contract (i.e. become politically active) or trying to find a better deal (emigrate). You can also decide to simply unilaterally break the contract (become a criminal) and in practice you could even live without such a contract in a variety of vast areas that are largely uninhabited. You're not being compelled to accept this contract, but it's such a good deal that few people decide otherwise.
- metaphorm 10y agothere really IS a law about food safety, because, you know, selling unsafe food can result in mass-scale sickness and death.