NASA's Curiosity rover discovers a surprise in a Martian rock

Re:NASA's Curiosity rover discovers a surprise in a Martian ... by amelius on Friday July 19, 2024 @02:08PM (#41009309)

The law allows people to be total jerks. Should we now hate the law instead of those people?

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Re:NASA's Curiosity rover discovers a surprise in a Martian ... by dpc050505 on Friday July 19, 2024 @03:47PM (#41010360)

The law everywhere does prohibit a LOT of jerk behaviours and a lot of jurisdictions have jurisprudence (I live in a common law country where jurisprudence is enormous) that amount to ''don't be a jerk''.

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Re:NASA's Curiosity rover discovers a surprise in a Martian ... by amelius on Saturday July 20, 2024 @09:26AM (#41016329)

You missed the point because in practice you can always be a jerk within the boundaries of the law, no matter the law.

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Re:NASA's Curiosity rover discovers a surprise in a Martian ... by superb_dev on Friday July 19, 2024 @03:46PM (#41010349)

Well the law shouldn’t be responsible for stopping someone from being a “total jerk”, but yes you should be upset at the law for not meeting your expectations

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Re:NASA's Curiosity rover discovers a surprise in a Martian ... by wongarsu on Friday July 19, 2024 @07:54PM (#41012724)

If the law rewarded people for being total jerks I would absolutely hate the law for that.

The issue isn't tolerating behavior, the issue is incentivizing it

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Re:NASA's Curiosity rover discovers a surprise in a Martian ... by amelius on Friday July 19, 2024 @08:02PM (#41012770)

If it didn't pay off to be a jerk, less people would be jerks.

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