On: Ask HN: Has any piece of information you've learned made your life worse?

[l33tbro]

Laws and their obedience are a part of our social reality. To feign insouciance about the utility of laws (ala Musk) is a little daft.

[paulcole → l33tbro]

If those recommendations (laws) mattered so much wouldn’t there be serious consequence to the insouciance?

Laws are just recommendations that some people see as more serious than others. If you’re willing to take the risk and accept the consequence, it’s your choice.

[l33tbro → paulcole]

You really seem immovably hung up on this clunky 'recommendation' epigram. All the best mate.

[paulcole → l33tbro]

Yeah sorry to get hung up on the entire discussion that was happening

> By their very definitions, laws are not "recommendations". There's nothing deeper here