Proportionality

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@Specialist290 <specialist290@hughes.net> on 2016-08-27 10:25:24 wrote

...[I]t was the Curial courts’ normal practice to scale punitive fines in accordance with a formula based on the net worth and income of the convicted, in order that the aversive effect of the fines would remain constant, and therefore such that wealthy individuals would not come to see what would be, from their perspective, relatively minor fines as merely a cost of doing business.

Now there’s something I can unequivocally get behind.

@Vyslanté <val.stephanois@hotmail.fr> on 2016-08-29 01:34:01 wrote

The good news is that it’s something that we, feeble Earthlings, already have. In Switzerland and Finland, at least.

The bad news is that when you ask people from other countries, they think it is “unequalitary”…