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Interesting that you think the two are mutually exclusive. Personally, I'd consider consulting advice to systematically hook an entire country onto opioids to b
by rmrfrmrf 6y ago
Interesting that you think the two are mutually exclusive. Personally, I'd consider consulting advice to systematically hook an entire country onto opioids to be "useless BS" much in the same way I'd consider schemes to fix bread prices as "useless BS". Both are cases of rather obvious approaches that are not only legally and ethically bankrupt, but more importantly fundamentally unsound and unsustainable as growth strategies.
- asjldkfin 6y agoMcks wasn’t asked for advice on ethics, they were asked advice on increasing sales. If you go to a Tattoo artist and ask for a portrait tattooed on your face, it might be gauche as hell, but that didn’t change the fact the artist might’ve done a great job.
- rmrfrmrf 6y agoNot even close to a comparable analogy. A better analogy would be yours, but where the ink disappears after 1 day and the person getting the tattoo dies a day later.
- asjldkfin 6y agoNo, it’s a perfect analogy, because it illustrates that efficacy is independent of moral perspective.
- rmrfrmrf 6y agoMorality has nothing to do with it. If consulting advice literally bankrupts your company, the advice is trash, full stop.
- asjldkfin 6y agoNo, the advice Purdue asked for bankrupted the company. Just like how asking a programmer to build a garbage program doesn’t mean the programmer is trash, it just means the specs are.