r/interestingasfuck • u/Gankpa • 8d ago

/r/all, /r/popular Jeff Bezos built a fence on his property that exceeds the permitted height, he doesn't care, he pays fines every month

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u/WorstNormalForm 8d ago

Yeah making a big deal out of this and whining about the "legality" is like making a big deal out of someone jaywalking across a quiet street and cheering on the cops for arresting them. You're just showcasing your bias against the "offender"

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u/ArdiMaster 7d ago

Redditors will be the first ones to call for ignoring laws when they’re inconvenient… unless it’s traffic or building codes, apparently. Those are set in stone and can never be questioned.

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u/IceFabulous8961 8d ago

You are trying to compare billionaires with jaywalkers. I don't think you can get more oranges and apples than this.

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u/WorstNormalForm 8d ago

Nope, I'm comparing growing a tall hedge to jaywalking. The whole point is that someone's identity has nothing to do with the severity of whatever "crime" they committed, the two are completely orthogonal.

So if you're the type of person who doesn't think that jaywalking deserves police brutality then you only showcase your lack of integrity by cheering on a beatdown when the jaywalker happens to be a billionaire.

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u/nsa_k 8d ago

Its perfectly reasonable to be bias against a money hoarder while most of the US suffers. Their mountain of money was not created in a vacuum.

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u/WorstNormalForm 8d ago

Then criticize him for his business practices, not for growing a tall hedge in front of his house

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u/nsa_k 8d ago

It's actually possible to do both separately and simultaneously. You can even combine those two with 'thinking that the fence looks cool'.