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Originally Posted by photon
Or just trying to treat other people the way I would want to be treated.
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You misunderstand me .. I was fully admitting to being a moral constructivist in that if I can get away with it, it's not necessarily wrong. Neither is it wrong necessarily to not pay an arbitrarily imposed fine / penalty. There's no congruence between rules and what is morally right. Often times not paying what is owed to someone would be considered morally bereft but in the case of the parking industry, I don't believe there's any moral ground to be had. City parking tickets are, at least to some extent, to encourage the efficient and organized use of our streets. For example, ticketing and towing during rush hour for parking on the side of busy roads has a utilitarian justification behind it.
But Impark bought some property, painted some lines, and conjured a number out of thin air for how much it costs me to park my vehicle there for a time. If I don't pay, you have to catch me. If I still don't pay, you have to enforce it. If you can't, tough luck.
Edit: I should add that there may be an existing moral justification involved -- trespassing. By the same token, mechanisms exist to enforce the laws that exist to give expression to our moral intuition that trespassing is wrong. Impark can use those, but they don't, because it would be impractical, inefficient, or impossible with their business model. That's not my problem -- pick a different business model.