Silicon Valley: Perks for Some Workers, Struggles for Parents

Re:Silicon Valley: Perks for Some Workers, Struggles for Par... by sgift on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @04:00PM (#9336746)

Good point, now we can get a (for me?) more interesting discussion:

- Was something illegal done here? - If yes, why is it (seemingly) so easy to do this? - How can this be changed? - Should it be changed? (In my opinion: Yes, a law which is easily breakable is useless)

Note: I only raise questions of legality here, not morality. I will not even start to discuss the morality of this action, because in my opinion anyone who says anything besides "horrible, not tolerable" in his analysis of what happened here has such a fundamental different set of core values from myself that any discussion would be a complete waste of time.

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Re:Silicon Valley: Perks for Some Workers, Struggles for Par... by dragonwriter on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @05:08PM (#9337174)

> Was something illegal done here? - If yes, why is it (seemingly) so easy to do this?

Laws don't exist to make it impossible to do the prohibited things, they exist to provide consequences for doing the prohibited things. Particularly, civil laws of this kind exist to provide compensation to those harmed by the act prohibited.

But they tend to require the person who believes they are due compensation to actively seek it.

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Re:Silicon Valley: Perks for Some Workers, Struggles for Par... by digikata on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @04:52PM (#9337065)

It seems relatively easy to rob or murder someone. Does that make the laws against such activities useless?

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