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So, instead of regulating the industry, you would to hold industry leaders criminally liable for how they operate in an unregulated industry?
by gizmo686 2y ago
So, instead of regulating the industry, you would to hold industry leaders criminally liable for how they operate in an unregulated industry?
- _heimdall 2y agoNo, they'd be held liable for lying to the public about the risks of the products they are trying to sell. If you know smoking can cause cancer and decide to bury the research and lie, that's a huge problem. If you know it can cause cancer and make that clear, and people still decide to smoke anyway, what's the problem exactly? More importantly, we only know what industries to regulate and how to regulate them after the fact. When an industry, like the cigarette or oil industries, has first access to data that is damning of that industry and buries it, how do we know what to regulate? If we can only intervene after the fact anyway, my proposal is to hold accountable those who lied and buried evidence and educate the public on the newly discovered risks. Let people deicide for themselves once those risks are clear.