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utopiahyesterday at 4:52 PM2 repliesview on HN

If it stops even just 1 person once, isn't it already worth it?


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Dylan16807yesterday at 11:29 PM

As a very general statement, there's a cost to having laws exist. A law that stops one human-scale action ever is very unlikely to be worth the overhead.

Valodimyesterday at 8:05 PM

We slaughter animals millions by the day in an industrialized fashion. I'm sure they'll feel much better that even singular instances of sexual harassment are officially not ok on paper.