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Everyone is the magic word here. Reality isn't that trivial unfortunately and we aren't talking about instances where this approach worked, but whether this kin
by class4behavior 8y ago
Everyone is the magic word here. Reality isn't that trivial unfortunately and we aren't talking about instances where this approach worked, but whether this kind of approach is justifiable as a general procedure. While pot legalization is going well, there's also an opioid crisis. Does that mean we should further deregulate the opioid industry?
Beside, the majority isn't necessarily in the right either. That's why no matter what you and society need to process the fact that you have broken the law; note that I'm using the abstract term process, which
- 0815test 8y ago>> The best way to get a law changed is for everyone to be breaking it all of the time. > Everyone is the magic word here Unfortunately the "everyone" in this case is just a handful of centralized services - because data-hoarding, like so many other things, becomes vastly cheaper when you do it at scale. It turns out that Sci-Hub and LibGen are not so different from YouTube, FB and other SV unicorns - their vulnerability to legal shenanigans of various sorts is exactly the same!
- stale2002 8y ago> That's why no matter what you and society need to process the fact that you have broken the law Not really. People can do what they want. And that includes breaking bad laws, and trying to get away with it. There is no obligation to "process" this fact, by turning yourself in, for whatever. A perfectly valid strategy is to instead break bad laws, and try to get away with it. And if enough people do this, then it has an effect, and may eventually cause the law to be changed.
- akimball 8y agoYes. The opioid crisis is directly caused by regulation.