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I think the article brings good points, but I also think it ignores something important, the alternatives... You can agree or disagree as much as you want with the current situation, but at some point, there has to be ways for a society to enforce its laws. Ideally you want to be in a society that define laws collaboratively, where you have a say in them, with a vote for example, and where the laws are applied fairly to everyone, without preferential treatment or specific targeting. And you'd want a process for people to asses and review if the law needs to be enforce in a particular case or not and what that looks like. But you still need a way to enforce them somehow. Ok, so let's say a group of people is indeed doing something that isn't right by the laws, and let's accept for arguments sake that you agree with that. Now how do you enforce the laws on that case? You could tear gas them, hit them with batons, point guns at them, handcuff them, and physically force them to comply, and lock them up if needed. Or you can use softer methods, like temporarily freeze their accounts and funds, starving them of resource until they comply. Yes, both methods are serious, they're meant to force you to follow the laws. So I agree that both are a big deal, but between the two, I think the latter is much better overall, and a lot more civil in my opinion. |
Reminds me of this exchange in Office Space:
Bob 1: We can’t actually find a record of [Milton] being a current employee here.
Bob 2: I looked into it more deeply, and I found that apparently what happened is that he was laid off five years ago, and no one ever told him about it. But, through some kind of glitch in the payroll department he still gets a paycheck.
Bob 1: So we just went ahead and fixed the glitch.
Boss: So, Milton has been let go?
Bob 1: Well, just a second there professor, we fixed the glitch. So he won’t be receiving a pay check anymore, so it’ll just work itself out naturally.
Bob 2: We always like to avoid confrontation whenever possible. The problem is solved from your end.