> Only "good people" will do so, and that caring will put them at a competitive disadvantage compared to people who simply don't care.
That's always the case. If you recycle, you are at a competitive disadvantaged compared to people who don't care. If you are veggie as well. Or if you help your kids to do their homework.
Do you think it's unreasonable to promote recycling ?
It's not a binary choice, it's a spectrum anyway.
> No, regulation has the possibility of leveling the playing field and making everyone behave in a certain way, irrespective of how good or bad they are.
Regulations are very slow, subject to intense lobbying and conflicts of interest, and assume people in charge are benevolent and compentent.
Regulations are not the base of the society. They come, they go. They change according to the time, the context, the place... People are what's matter.
Again, I understand how hard this is. I also notice that a lot of people don't want to hear about it, because of the resonsibility it involves. But power to the people cannot comes without responsability to the people.
And responsability only truely work if it's chosen, not enforced.
It's unreasonable to expect that promoting recycling alone leads to systematic recycling of non-precious materials. Recycling is the law in places where it is considered commonplace.
Swedes don't just love recycling; the government makes it worthwhile by increasing the cost of not-recycling (fines, jail time).
That's always the case. If you recycle, you are at a competitive disadvantaged compared to people who don't care. If you are veggie as well. Or if you help your kids to do their homework.
Do you think it's unreasonable to promote recycling ?
It's not a binary choice, it's a spectrum anyway.
> No, regulation has the possibility of leveling the playing field and making everyone behave in a certain way, irrespective of how good or bad they are.
Regulations are very slow, subject to intense lobbying and conflicts of interest, and assume people in charge are benevolent and compentent.
Regulations are not the base of the society. They come, they go. They change according to the time, the context, the place... People are what's matter.
Again, I understand how hard this is. I also notice that a lot of people don't want to hear about it, because of the resonsibility it involves. But power to the people cannot comes without responsability to the people.
And responsability only truely work if it's chosen, not enforced.