<story><title>In Bel-Air, someone is using 1,300 gallons of water per hour</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-1007-lopez-water-glutton-20151007-column.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradleybuda</author><text>This is disturbing; the journalist is advocating the outing&amp;#x2F;doxxing of a private citizen who is breaking &lt;i&gt;no laws whatsoever&lt;/i&gt; (at least as far as I can tell from the story). In the internet bully culture we have, that&amp;#x27;s incredibly irresponsible.&lt;p&gt;If there&amp;#x27;s something wrong with an individual using so much water (and there may very well be), then the right response is to change the laws, regulations, or rates to charge more or even to prohibit said water use; not to shame an individual who is acting legally within the system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cperciva</author><text>I agree.  After all, it&amp;#x27;s not as if this property owner isn&amp;#x27;t paying for the extravagant water usage.&lt;p&gt;And if you think that $90,000&amp;#x2F;year isn&amp;#x27;t enough to reimburse society for this water usage... raise the damn prices.  And if you think raising water rates would unfairly hurt the poor... take the increased revenue and hand it out as a per-capita water tax rebate.</text></comment>
<story><title>In Bel-Air, someone is using 1,300 gallons of water per hour</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-1007-lopez-water-glutton-20151007-column.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradleybuda</author><text>This is disturbing; the journalist is advocating the outing&amp;#x2F;doxxing of a private citizen who is breaking &lt;i&gt;no laws whatsoever&lt;/i&gt; (at least as far as I can tell from the story). In the internet bully culture we have, that&amp;#x27;s incredibly irresponsible.&lt;p&gt;If there&amp;#x27;s something wrong with an individual using so much water (and there may very well be), then the right response is to change the laws, regulations, or rates to charge more or even to prohibit said water use; not to shame an individual who is acting legally within the system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>Shaming people for doing things that are legal but nonetheless antisocial is the only way to avoid the situation where you have to make everything that&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;bad&lt;/i&gt; also &lt;i&gt;illegal&lt;/i&gt;. It&amp;#x27;s a time-honored way of enforcing social norms and avoiding overly-legalistic social frameworks.</text></comment>