> There’s a balance that needs to be carefully managed here. Yes, fairness to consumers is important. But you can’t destroy the incentive to produce value in so doing.

The value is derived from the people consuming the product. Placing the "incentive to produce value" above the people who presumably are the source of this value seems...misaligned.

▲

otterley 3 hours ago | parent [-]

If there’s no product or service to be consumed, there’s no value produced either. That’s the point: it’s harmful to eliminate the incentive to produce.

▲

Avicebron 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

People will _always_ need things. There are very few things that will eliminate people's need for things and producers will of course adapt to the environment.

What we need is an environment that does not give the producers asymmetric power over consumers and the products will naturally align with that.

▲

inigyou 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What if only the incentive to produce bad things is eliminated

▲

monkpit 3 hours ago | parent [-]

* definition of bad is subjective and may vary depending upon which lobby group has the most cash to throw around

▲

inigyou 3 hours ago | parent [-]

no, I referred to actual bad things

▲

otterley 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The point is still correct. People often disagree on what is good and what is bad. It’s a judgement, not an indisputable fact.

▲

readread 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Oh good, nothing's possible then, we should give up on regulating bad things because hitmen think murder isn't bad when they do it.

▲

otterley 2 hours ago | parent [-]

How did you arrive at that conclusion? Laws are the result of debate between sides and the prevailing opinion. The fact that laws aren’t identical in every jurisdiction worldwide reflects that there isn’t universal agreement on every question.

Also, sarcasm isn’t welcome here. Please read the HN guidelines.

▲

readread 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> Also, sarcasm isn’t welcome here. Please read the HN guidelines.

Ah yes, I didn't couch my post in any of the various, rampant HN-friendly versions of shitposting. I'll try to follow your example from here on out. Excellent touch citing the guidelines at me after your role in this thread, A+.

Re-reads this thread, taking notes

▲

Y_Y an hour ago | parent [-]

You can hardly expect a greenname to have mastered such a subtle art.

	▲	readread 6 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I abandon accounts when they get way into the hundreds of karma, generally, or a couple times I’ve let it get a ways into the thousands before destroying the password. I prefer not to become attached to it, and find the minor clout of recognition (upvoted comments that probably ought not have been…) kinda gross.

▲

inigyou 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

so why do anything if it's impossible to tell what's good and what's bad?

	▲	otterley 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		See my sibling comment.