alt Hacker News> That’s a step (sentencing guidelines) after we decide it should be criminalized.
You decide it should be criminalized before you identify any harms?
> They’re in the same ballpark, 2 to 6 years or so.
You can just look it up. Maximum sentence for mugging is 30 years, ransomware is 20.
> You decide it should be criminalized before you identify any harms?
No. We have a measure of the harms. We haven’t balanced them for sentencing. Again, deciding something should be illegal doesn’t require obsessing over the sentence ex ante.
> Maximum sentence for mugging is 30 years
Not the norm, either for maximums [1] or usual sentences.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbery_laws_in_the_United_Sta...