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by ClumsyPilot 1474 days ago
> Your idea of better laws would mean no Tesla and no SpaceX.

Elon is not the only one that needs to be held accountable -> big oil has literally prosecuted and killed people, just look at what they've done to Steven Donziger.

If we actually enforced these laws, maybe we would have electric cars even earlier, and indeed, there maybe wouldn't be Tesla.

> Tesla has replaced two million gasoline cars with electric cars

Laws don't work this way - If I save someone's life today that does not give me a voucher to murder someone tomorrow.

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>>If we actually enforced these laws, maybe we would have electric cars even earlier, and indeed, there maybe wouldn't be Tesla.

This is just utopianism.

>>Laws don't work this way

I wasn't saying they do. I was explaining the consequences of those "better laws" existing. In truth, the laws being sought by the OP would further undermine the very foundations of a liberal society, with contract liberty, to replace it with social control by an officialdom made up of unionized government bureaucrats with next to zero accountability, micromanaging the actions of others based on an elitist "government knows best" philosophy.