Quote Originally Posted by RitsukoSonoda View Post
Another of these "They shouldn't punish people for breaking the rules because they didn't do it before" threads.

Maybe they're getting tired of just telling ppl not to do it because they've proven they're going to do it until there are consequences for doing it?

"But they didn't do it before" isn't relevant unless you own a time machine.

A cop isn't going stop giving you a speeding ticket if you tell them you didn't get a ticket all the other times you broke the speed limit.

Your boss isn't going to stop firing you for breaking policy just because you told them you didn't get fired all the other times you did it.
This is actually an amazing example. Right now you can drive ~5 miles over the speed limit and you will never get pulled over. If they started doing that tomorrow and started giving you fines for it. People would be outraged and justly so, by not enforcing it they implicitly endorsed the practice of doing so. Now its actually worse in SE's case as theyve said multiple times to basically not harass anyone and theyll look the otherway which they observably have done.

You're also mistaking my point at all. My point is just the level of punishment is wrong.