Example: I believe that IP is a direct contradiction of nature, sacrificing the advancement of humanity and the world for selfish gain, and therefore is sinful.
Edit: pls do not downvote the comments this is a constructive discussion
Edit2: IP= intellectal property
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The death penalty makes sense, but only for CEOs or politicians who knowingly make choices that result in the deaths of hundreds. The Boeing CEO should have been executed for knowing negligence that resulted in that string of crashes.
That’s because there is much less of a chance of “getting the wrong person”, since the buck has to stop there, the fish smells from the head, and it is the one situation where the value of deterrence trumps rehabilitation or other concerns.
I have a little bit of a different take on this. If we’re going to kill companies for their crime, which we should cuz apparently they’re people and therefore should have to pay for the crimes like people do, why not just kill companies? Instead of pretending a CEO is not just going to be replaced by another CEO with the exact same morals, cuz they all are, let’s actually kill the company. Revoke it’s corporate charter. Kill the thing that makes it a company. Kill the thing that protects it from retribution. Kill the things that keep all those investors and stockholders who are constantly praying for more and higher numbers safe from consequences.
My guess is, a CEO would take it almost as hard to find out they’ve lost 100% of their power because the entity they were in charge of no longer exists vs finding out their lives are about to end.
Especially if the CEO in question was legally blocked from being in charge of any other company ever. They can work, they can earn a living, they’d just be blocked from ever climbing the corporate ladder again.
I believe that if it were thoroughly enforced, this fate would seem as bad as death to the awful CEO’s of the world.
Another way to do it: Deny them every step of the ladder they fucked up.
And they’d need to restart from a regular position equal to their experience (e.g. CEO -> Manager of department or something equal to the highest non C-suite managerial job).
If they fuck it up, they have to be fired, are not elligible to be hired for >10 years at the same company and are only possible to be employed at a position lower to their current one.
Optionally to add: 10% penalty of their gross worth (Including every asset in their position or by a direct proxy).
I am against the death penalty out of principle, not practical reasons. It goes fundamentally against rehabilitation, its effect differs from person to person drastically, it’s just weird and vengeful. And making exceptions for edge cases is not good for a justice system.
So what if you do this instead: consistently enforce, say, 10 year prison sentences for murder as a CEO. This kind of stuff would stop overnight. But that doesn’t happen unfortunately.
In any law targeting people with that amount of power, the consistent enforcement part is the hardest part.
If only big corpos were held to the same standard as individuals :(
Sorry, execution is only for the poors and examples