Let's teach our daughters not to wear short skirts, because that increases the chances they'll be raped. Sounds like a similar argument.
With less hyperbole, you can use this argument regarding externalities involved in capitalism from the exploitation of workers to pollution of rivers. The way you change incentives is you add regulation.
Regardless, this thread is floating away from my point. No one is addressing the actual article here, which is really discouraging and fits with the trend of discourse on HN for the last year or so.
It's not the same argument in the least; it's just shock value nonsense you're pedaling in hopes of coming up with relevancy.
>>which is really discouraging and fits with the trend of discourse on HN for the last year or so.
Yeah, the guy who is posting terrible rape analogies is the guy I trust to judge what is or isn't discouraging with regards to the value of discourse on this website.
How is it not the similar? In both instances, people explain away the terrible deeds of a person by saying they are incentivized to do x,y,z instead of talking about whether it is right to do so and focusing on the pain it inflicts on people.
Trying to force anyone out of a home so you can make a buck puts their livelihood and safety at risk. You can't just excuse terrible behavior because people are greedy.
With less hyperbole, you can use this argument regarding externalities involved in capitalism from the exploitation of workers to pollution of rivers. The way you change incentives is you add regulation.
Regardless, this thread is floating away from my point. No one is addressing the actual article here, which is really discouraging and fits with the trend of discourse on HN for the last year or so.