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Regulations on corporations are ultimately backed up by threats of violence too.
by dempseye 5y ago
Regulations on corporations are ultimately backed up by threats of violence too.
- ehnto 5y agoNot practically they're not. They would suffer fines, at worst you'd have the people running the company get fined, at an absolute extreme they'd go to jail (VW/dieselgate). You could argue that prison time is the point that it backed by violence, but I must admit I'm fairly surprised that we're discussing the validity of laws and regulation as a concept in general, in response to regulating industrial pollution.
- cableshaft 5y agoI used to listen to Libertarian talk shows back in the day. Those people thought all laws, regulation, and taxation were violence (they only work because government will point a gun at you and throw you in prison). They're not exactly wrong, but I no longer find the argument very persuasive. In the same sense, corporations are committing violence on us also, by destroying the planet that we all live on.