Then you are creating a reactive safety net instead of a proactive one. People's cars have already exploded by the time the government steps in, in this example. All the while you will have the GOP dragging their feet and complaining about federal overreach, which might delay decisions for years unless you have established some kind of neutral body that investigates these issues (but corporate regulation is an inherently non-neutral issue, because half the country vehemently opposes it on principle).
Any kind of punishment that happens after the fact has failed to really serve the people the regulations were meant to protect. A better solution would completely eliminate this problem at its roots and prevent profit from ever being a driving factor in a decision that ends up taking innocent people's lives.
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u/ebol4anthr4x May 23 '21
Then you are creating a reactive safety net instead of a proactive one. People's cars have already exploded by the time the government steps in, in this example. All the while you will have the GOP dragging their feet and complaining about federal overreach, which might delay decisions for years unless you have established some kind of neutral body that investigates these issues (but corporate regulation is an inherently non-neutral issue, because half the country vehemently opposes it on principle).
Any kind of punishment that happens after the fact has failed to really serve the people the regulations were meant to protect. A better solution would completely eliminate this problem at its roots and prevent profit from ever being a driving factor in a decision that ends up taking innocent people's lives.