When asked about the Freedom fine, [Patel] responded, "I decided to take it as a cost of doing business."
This is the problem, why should you not take dubiously legal or moral action, if there isn't a significant deterrent?
This is the problem, why should you not take dubiously legal or moral action, if there isn't a significant deterrent?
Yes, it'll go wrong. It'll also go right. I don't think we need to structure our society like a prison just because it has the capacity to be worse than we like it to be.
On a micro scale, not wanting to be an asshole will cause people to follow the laws. On a macro scale, the only way to make people follow the law is to make breaking the law costly.