dragonfly
22d ago
I think generally "harmful to society" is understood to mean "would be better for society if they hadn't been made". For it to be tautological you'd have to mean "contracts which are more harmful to society than the harm incurred by breaking them" and that is, I think, harder to demonstrate. The whole issue with, eg, student loan forgiveness, is that it incentivises people to choose based on the short term consequences, expecting they can always renegotiate at government-point the long-term consequences later.
I have the vague recollection that the only coherent interpretation of the final explanation of 999 is that the villain did everything due to a misunderstanding of the rules/universe the game operates in, which was amusing but narratively unsatisfying and inspired a couple of irl rants.
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