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Because we can't close corporations for a rules violation.

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I mean we could

Kind of like how we could implement the death penalty for marijuana possession?

It's not like there aren't countries where that exist.

Right, but should we? Probably not. That’s what I’m getting at.

If we really cared about stopping marijuana possession, a death penalty that was objectively and consistently applied would probably work very well.

Arguments by analogy are not worth anybody's time.

Arguments by analogy are an excellent way to compose an argument. Socrates built entire ethical systems using analogy.

You only have to look at what we have above, a changing of the subject from corporate punishment to...execution for marijuana possession. That is bad community'ing.

As an aside, I've got some bad news about how Socrates' method worked out for him.

>> Because we can't close corporations for a rules violation.

> I mean we could

The post I was replying to talked about “closing” a corporation for a rule violation. Closing a company is akin to “killing” it, not “punishing” it. I think the analogy stands.

It worked out really well for him. You've heard of him thousands of years later. Thousands of years from now persons will continue to discuss him and you and all of us'll likely be forgotten.

We can, we just chose not to.

We chose not to because it’s a bad idea. That’s what I’m getting at here. “Killing” a company for a rules violation is also probably a bad idea.

Killing a company for repeated rules violations is perfectly okay with me though.

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