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If you kill an oil executive, a new one will take their place. You've gotta go after the company instead, that'll have a more direct impact and be harder to replace, especially if paired with regulation.
That's why you keep doing it. Eventually a chilling/deterrent effect will take hold. It's not like anyone's actually passionate about oil. They can go be apple orchard execs or something idk
Yep, persistent effort over an indeterminate period. That's what got us into this problem and it is a valid way to get out.
It's probably the only way out. The only variable is really whether or not it involves murder.
If deterrence worked, there wouldn't be capital crimes in jurisdictions with the death penalty. Or maybe our criminal justice system is just fucked.
This is definitely not a hill I want to die on, but there are three axes to deterrence:
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Certainty of punishment
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Severity of punishment
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Celerity (speed) of punishment
Basically you can't just raise one axis and expect anyone to be deterred. So if you just put to death one random exec it's probably not even as effective as, like, slightly maiming a handful. Or cream pie to the face of a hundred. Or a gentle yet stern tap of the wrist of a thousand.
A very well-thought out counterpoint. Thank you. I did a spit-take on the 'cream pie to the face' at first though...
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CEOs may be sociopaths but they have a more developed sense of self preservation than your run of the mill murderer so it might be more effective IMO. I say try it and add the death penalty for severe financial crimes like they're doing in Vietnam.
Hey, I'm all for it. Aerosmith had it right - eat the rich!
You don't mow the lawn one time then call the work done forever.
The problem is that we have a lawn, when we shouldn’t have one in the first place. Instead we really need biodiverse native gardens.
Don't just kill the corps responsible for it, we need regulation and a carbon/pollution tax.