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Laws are just contracts and have consequences if you get caught breaking them. People and businesses break contracts all the time. I really have no problem wit
by meddlepal 8y ago
Laws are just contracts and have consequences if you get caught breaking them. People and businesses break contracts all the time.
I really have no problem with people or companies evaluating risk/reward and pursuing whatever goal they want... if you want to disincentivize behavior then increase the penalty and change the risk/reward calculation individuals and corporations make.
- njarboe 8y agoI think criminal law probably should not be looked at in this way. Murder? Best if people think of not murdering people as an absolute and not some contract that should be contemplated as breakable if risk/reward calculation is right. Most humans don't think on gradients and are much more comfortable with binary choices. And we would probably have to bring back torture to get the risk/reward appropriate on that law.