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> When you find yourself doing something simple in a complicated way because the law gives you additional advantages, that's a great sign that the law is bad.
by CPLX 8y ago
> When you find yourself doing something simple in a complicated way because the law gives you additional advantages, that's a great sign that the law is bad.
Not really. It's usually a sign that you're trying to evade the plain meaning of the law with technicalities.
- graedus 8y agoDoesn't it follow that if you're able to evade the plain meaning of the law, then the law as written (or its enforcement) is ineffective, or "bad"?
- eropple 8y agoOn some axes, sure. On others: there is a basic social contract that underpins...well...society. And it's telling, to me, that Google is conflating "following the law" and "what might possibly cost us rounding errors in additional benefits" in the documentation quoted in the Guardian piece, to be honest: they're tipping their hand here. And I don't think it's nearly as murky as some folks want it to look. Let's be real: more often than not, when somebody's doing something dirty, they know it's dirty.