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I'm not interested in "incentives". The purpose of law is justice, not social engineering. When lawmakers play at social engineering they make the law unjust.
by nybble41 8y ago
I'm not interested in "incentives". The purpose of law is justice, not social engineering. When lawmakers play at social engineering they make the law unjust.
If concealing information about public figures results in "social harm" then that "social harm" is exactly the same regardless of whether the information is concealed for the sake of profit. When someone has been harmed by another person's actions the offender has a duty to make the victim(s) whole. The offender's motive for causing the harm is irrelevant.
(I'm glossing over the distinction between "social harm" and the actual harm which would be necessary to justify responding with force, but that's a topic for another day.)
- dragonwriter 8y ago> 'm not interested in "incentives". The purpose of law is justice, not social engineering. The purpose of law has always been social engineering. Various concepts of justice may either provide the desired outcome toward which that engineering is directed, and appeal to some concepts of justice may be an integral component of how law seeks to acheive the outcome to which it is directed, but it is all, invariably, social engineering.