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People go to jail for non-violent crimes as well. Again, why does personal responsibility for harm to others bother you?

• JumpCrisscross 3y ago
  > why does personal responsibility for harm to others bother you? Personal responsibility is irrelevant. You’re constructing a lower threshold for criminality. I know the first thing I’d be trying to figure out is how to put my competitors in jail. Let’s take Epic v Apple. Epic went to court. It lost. This entire saga has cost Epic’s shareholders billions. Should Sweeney go to jail? Would the world be better if an Apple-friendly prosecutor could take up that challenge? If we have a cultural failing in America, it’s having a reflexive urge to turn outrage into jail time.
  • Apocryphon 3y ago
    > I know the first thing I’d be trying to figure out is how to put my competitors in jail. Provide an incentive for companies to regulate each other! Let rational self-interest clean up the market while the state steps back and looks on!
    • JumpCrisscross 3y ago
      > Provide an incentive for companies to regulate each other Do you think there is a reason every modern democracy resists privatising criminal prosecution? (They had it in Rome. We probably need a history of law section in the basic high-school curriculum.)
      • Apocryphon 3y ago
        The justice system in this hypothetical would not be private, it's just that companies would be trying to sue each other for breaking the rules, accidentally advancing the public interest.
        • JumpCrisscross 3y ago
          > companies would be trying to sue each other for breaking the rules We already have private enforcement of many rules. Environmental ones, for example. We’re specifically discussing criminality, putting people in jail.
          • Apocryphon 3y ago
            Fair enough. I just see it as an escalation in deterrence.