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Comment by dehrmann | Hacker News Reader

And if everyone who dropped the ball on this got a year in prison for it, they'd be even more rare.

Once you start punishing players for dropping the ball, the game becomes to not receive the pass.

We never seem to have this problem for any field other than law enforcement or military. In other professions, if you mess up aggressively, there are repercussions professionally.

There are? Like when Goldman Sachs needed a bailout ... and then used half of it to pay bonuses to their execs that had gotten them into the mess in the first place? Or politicians mismanaging things, only to be re-elected or, worst case, switch to a cushy job on the board of some corporation?

I'm not sure there are that many professions where you get exiled or go to jail for failure.

If doctors or lawyers fuck up bad enough, losing their license is one possible, if rare, outcome. Those professions are still very popular.

I hear you but I also feel like this is already happening. Not only did everyone in this chain, for 2 years, say "its not my problem, I'll push it forward", when it had to be reviewed they did it secretly without recompense for the harm caused.

They received the pass and then pretended it never happened

thats a good way to gum up the system so nothing ever gets done.

Then people will be empowered to enforce community standards instead of being held back by a State force that doesn't do its job but prevents them from doing theirs.

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