upside-down thinking: the law is not for entrepreneurs - eviltoast

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  • InsurgentRat@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    what?

    I think that guy is an idiot because stuff like airbnb is so demonstrably bad it’s had to be banned in places to help house people but the law doesn’t seem related to ethics except accidentally to me?

    Sometimes the law if aligned with ethics, e.g. don’t kill people cause you get mad at them in traffic. Sometimes it’s monsterous e.g. put peoples struggling with addiction in cages, force abused women back to their husbands, follow this racist order etc.

    I don’t think it’s wrong to say we should be careful about what laws we follow.

    • Steve@awful.systems
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      1 year ago

      You properly explain how laws can be actually horrendous. Unfortunately the person in the HN post didn’t because they want to justify their breaking of copyright law to level the playing field of breaking copyright law.

      Anyway this tweet was relevant. (Sorry, direct link because nitter seems to be dead and archive.org failed to archive it)

      https://x.com/iwriteok/status/1692702405111292205

      • InsurgentRat@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        I’m sorry, potentially I’m a moron but I don’t understand what you said/the post formerly known as a tweet

        • Steve@awful.systems
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          1 year ago

          It was just a tweet I saw while writing that seemed relevant to the subject. Don’t read too much into it. I have a short attention span.