> A company complying with the laws of the country it does business in seems fairly uncontroversial to me, even if you may not agree with those laws. Stopping

> A company complying with the laws of the country it does business in seems fairly uncontroversial to me, even if you may not agree with those laws. Stopping your analysis at legality/illegality is morally bankrupt. Local laws can be explicit tools of oppression and malice, and I would say its very controversial for western companies to follow such laws in authoritarian countries like China. For an utterly obvious example of why this is true: look at Nazi Germany. Everything it did was in compliance with its local laws, but now many of its actions are universally considered crimes against humanity. Foreign companies and individuals that collaborated with it on those crimes are not excused by those laws. > Do you want your companies to be extensions of US foreign policy? I want them to be extensions of some basic liberal values, not agents of profit uber alles. For instance, I applaud European pharmaceutical companies for refusing to sell the anesthetics used for lethal injection to the US states that use them for executions.