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This is a great question/thought. I am really surprised at how people forget why laws, rules, policies and governance were put in place in the first place. Rul
by unsungNovelty 6y ago
This is a great question/thought. I am really surprised at how people forget why laws, rules, policies and governance were put in place in the first place.
Rules/laws/policies are to prevent abuse/evil things and to serve people! RULES ARE ALWAYS MUTABLE and should punish abusers of law/rules/policies, NOT the people it is built to serve. Rules must/will change and they should always benefit people who are doing the right thing.
I will give a simple example on why we should go above the law and think a lot of things using basic common sense;
Recently our country introduced camera's on highways to avoid speeding. The govt is so rigid on the rule now that they have already fined people who were speeding in an event of emergency and even ambulances. And I read complains of these people on Facebook. Instead of the laws working to protect and serve, we see it happening the other way.
What we as a society lack is process/structure to handle the outstanding/exceptional scenarios. We need to build a system which tolerates outstanding/exceptional situations so that the system doesn't break down. But unfortunately, we don't tolerate any outstanding situations and it breaks down.
This organisation is doing bad things, and this is not the first or second time this has happened. So the whole world and especially the employees should definitely know what they are doing. They are engineers aren't they? So they are bound to be smarter than the average folks. There is no need for benefit of the doubt with them.
And let's starts acknowledging that many countries are still only in the drafting phase when it comes to dealing with most of the digital abuses, bad things. Most democratic systems are super slow when it comes to digital crimes and laws. So current laws are not sufficient and hence should not be used gauge the severity of the incidents the law cannot handle.
Also remember, Facebook started struggling a lot after the cambridge analytica scandal to hire, because people didn't want to affiliate with them. So this works. We should call them and the employees out for a better world. :)
- smolder 6y agoMany people see the world as inherently adversarial. There is no cooperative solution to any society-scale problem for them. They just see a bunch of people and isolated groups with dollar amount score cards, clawing their way to the highest position they can muster. So, they have no problem helping one adversary against another, and do not see it as immoral to get ahead at others' expense. (That's what winners do!) The only problem in a trolly problem, then, is if you're not the one operating the switch.