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If done with malice aforethought on the part of a corporation, particularly a corporation with massive funding, I absolutely am. Companies cut down protected f
by dogecoinbase 12y ago
If done with malice aforethought on the part of a corporation, particularly a corporation with massive funding, I absolutely am. Companies cut down protected forests after doing a calculus that the resulting improvement in their housing development's view will be worth the fines. The punishments for this type of antisocial behavior need to be large enough to actually change the balance of their risk assessments.
- nmjohn 12y ago> done with malice aforethought > massive funding Who gets to make that judgement? In my mind you are asking for punishment based on subjective criteria, which would be ripe for abuse.
- dogecoinbase 12y agoNeither of those are in the least subjective, except in degree. I'm saying that permitting the wealthy to choose to violate laws by paying token fines is a fundamentally broken system.
- mikeash 12y agoUm, is not the answer to your question obviously "the judge and jury"? You do realize that criteria like these are already central to deciding crimes and punishments for all sorts of offenses? For example, premeditated murder is a different crime with a substantially more severe punishment than deliberate murder in the heat of the moment, which in turn is different from and more severe than accidentally causing someone's death.