About this law, what it really creates is an insane amount of insecurity. When other people get to decide whether what you do is reasonable or not, the only question that matters is who gets to make the decision.
And you should not have to waste precious time explanting anything to a bureocrat. Maybe Faang companies get to have that luxury
Why is HN always full of people advocating that companies should be above the law?
You harm someone in self-defence and a judge of jury decides whether what you did was reasonable. We just have a stack of case law that says 'in the past, X was found reasonable".
On the other hand, when Boeing killed hundreds of people, no one was even charged. If any individual commits the acts corporates do regularly, they'd be in jail in no time.
I've seen folks claim that HN has a significant population of investors and founders. There's probably a fair share of people who aspire to belong to that group, too. It's probably a concentration of the greater pattern of Americans seeing themselves as temporarily embarrassed billionaires.
May be I am not reading it correctly. It is perfectly legal and within the law so no one is advocating they are above the law.
On an added note, in these times of looming climate crisis, a carbon tax or something associated with companies using/polluting "free" resources (air/water/petroleum products) seems like a good idea