[sumy23]

> That won't put the water back. Revenge is just the final form of prioritizing the comfort (or discomfort) of a handful of bad actors over the well-being of the other 99.9999% of the world.

Punishing the perpetrators won’t put the water back in the same way punishing a murderer won’t bring the victim back. We don’t punish to make right. We punish to deter.

[robocat]

And in 20 years time, it will be your turn to be retroactively punished for currently belonging to a society that is burning the world?

[HWR_14]

1) It's not group membership, it's targetted

2) I try to live in such a way that I'm not a wasteful glutton who misuses communal resources.

[TomSwirly]

If the people who are destroying our biosphere thought they would face appropriate consequences, they would behave very differently.

[Schroedingersat]

If you have power and are wielding it to make things worse in order to gain more power, then yes. Stripping you of all of your power later is morally and strategically right.

[tshaddox]

Notice the stark difference between “a few human owners of that agribusiness” and “belong to a society.”

[csomar]

Are you suggesting the farmers are criminal? Unless they subverted the democratic institutions to benefit from bedrock water, punishing them IS the crime.

[kristopolous]

> Are you suggesting the farmers are criminal?

Yes! Enthusiastically, with vigor!

[singularity2001]

under that definition the upper echelons of nestle are pretty certain to be criminals, so yes