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" Why should Google suffer" 1. I reject any notion that Google is somehow "suffering" if they don't go into China. 2. You're making it seem like Google is ent
by s73v3r_ 8y ago
" Why should Google suffer"
1. I reject any notion that Google is somehow "suffering" if they don't go into China.
2. You're making it seem like Google is entitled to all the business it wants. That's not true in the least.
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- hazz99 8y ago2. You're making it seem like Google is entitled to all the business it wants. That's not true in the least. Why not?
- earenndil 8y ago'Why not?' is never the right question to ask. The onus is on you to support a claim, you cannot demand of the other person to prove a negative.
- hazz99 8y agoDidn't they propose that "Google is not entitled to all the business it wants" without justification? I'm prodding for them to support the claim, because (as you said) the onus is on them.
- int_19h 8y agoBecause it is an American corporation, for starters. Corporations are artificial entities that are established by governments - they don't exist "naturally", and thus have no natural rights whatsoever. They only have such privileges as the society deems to bestow on them when it creates them, and those privileges can and do come with obligations. So, if we as a society decide that American companies shall not aid and abet human rights violations elsewhere in the world, then that's what they do. Or else they can dissolve and go incorporate in China or wherever.
- hazz99 8y agoSo, if we as a society decide that American companies shall not aid and abet human rights violations elsewhere in the world, then that's what they do. Ah, I didn't realise we were discussing "entitled" from an American legal perspective. In that case, you're correct. Imo, however, restricting globalism just makes markets less efficient. Thus hurts everyone, regardless of the moral questions in any specific circumstance.