>Politicians, super rich people, and companies that disregard/disrespect the law rarely end up with long prison sentences (or any meaningful punishment).
That's something we've got to fix. But just because that happens, it doesn't mean we don't have to be hard on "not elite" criminals.
>If punishment was applied uniformly, maybe you'd have more people respecting the law?
I don't believe so. You think crack dealers, murderers or rapists do their thing because Mr. Richguy didn't go to prison for stealing a few millions? I don't see how those two things are related at all.
Maybe the case of some anarchist terrorists who wanted to sow discord through crime, but that's a tiny minority.
I think it's reasonable to see people who have no respect for the law, which is one of the strongest and most basic pillars of our society, as lesser than human.
(Now I'll get responses telling me how some people are unjustly incarcerated. You missed the point)
That's because there's a big amount of people, myself included, who feel like drug prohibition is good, all things considered. Not because "editing" the law is hard. (I am not American).
>Austria and Switzerland for instance push for this.
This is the kind of law that's only pushed by wealthy countries like Germany or the UK. I live in a shithole which would never get a law like this. Getting rubbish like this, net neutrality, copyright reforms, etc. would never happen here on its own because we have much bigger fish to fry.
The EU becomes a worse and worse idea every year. It was good while it lasted. This will be the first year I vote for an anti-EU party locally. It pains me, but it's been enough already :/
>Sovereign countries are free to set their tax rate to 0 in order to attract companies there.
Then those companies should only sell products and services in those countries. Otherwise, something should be done about it. I'm not saying it's easy, but it can be improved.
I think you're taking it too literally. What I mean is that, as an example, if they say $POLITICAL_FIGURE has said this or that, I will suspect they're taking the words out of context, but I am not going to find and watch the entire video, because I don't have the necessary time and energy to do that.
To tell you the truth I don't have time, energy or knowledge to find the sources of all news and research I see and investigate and assess the credibility of them, so I simply don't believe anything.
This problem has existed since forever, and back in the day I believed something like reddit would work because real humans would do the curation for me and call out bad news/research/etc, but we all know how that turned out.
Ah, so I get to pick which laws I obey and which laws I don't?
>Some of them were desperate.
Not an excuse.