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Alternatively, if you allow a legislative environment where bad behavior is rewarded, then—shocker!—bad behavior will be common.

Most people and companies engaging in bad behavior aren't doing it because they're evil, they're doing it because they don't care about good/evil as much as they care about money. If you just change the rules for how to make money (and not end up in jail), they will change their behavior in an instant.

Changing laws may be difficult, but your proposed solution involves changing the brains of a large number of people. Harder, not easier.



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