Comment by matchbok3
1 day ago
I spent a lot of time thinking about this, actually. If this silly idea became law, companies would find some lawyer-approved boilerplate that would satisfy the silly law and accomplish nothing. Nothing would change. I guess you would say the candidate could sue because the company didn't provide warm fuzzy custom-tailored apologies about why they didn't fall in love? Or a specific "reason"? Is a judge going to adjudicate that "reason"?
It's not a strawman. It's either jail time or a fine, right? Have you thought about the implications?
Listing six months in jail and acting like full punishment would have to be the first resort is a clear strawman.
Fines are all we need. But even if we ignored fines entirely, one day of jail would be plenty.
Your original comment makes it sound like there's no reasonable way to enforce the law. There is. You send reminders and warnings and escalate to a fine after a certain point.
Also I think you could figure out a big list of boilerplate answers and make everyone roughly satisfied.
But come on, surely there exist laws where reasons have to be given and they're not corrupted into doing nothing.