Heineken rips up 300 acre Monmouthshire orchard

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[–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If the best argument you can make against a lawful transaction is that a 20-something year-old orchard is a wildlife habitat, this transaction is 100% fine.

[–]HugodeCrevellier[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sure.

On the other hand, laws are created/invented according to mentality/ideology.

And so, depending on the society/time, something that's harmful or even potentially catastrophic can be legal,
e.g. money in politics, lobbying, copyright trolls, Monsanto, mass immigration, health insurance companies, spying on citizens, corporate-police states, greed-driven ecosystem destruction, unjust wars, etc.

And something that's not harmful or even beneficial can be illegal,
e.g. freedom of speech, some political views, sharing information hidden by corrupt governments, using medicine paywalled by sociopaths, having a gun, etc.

Governments try to, or, rather, should try to, figure out how to make the minimum amount of laws required for a good/civilised world ...

but mentality does matter.