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Why are we so concerned whether a company is good or evil? These words are irrelevant when used to describe companies like google/bing. Companies are to obey t
by maeon3 15y ago
Why are we so concerned whether a company is good or evil? These words are irrelevant when used to describe companies like google/bing. Companies are to obey the laws of the land, and if they break them and are caught, then appropriate action should be taken. Google/Bing being good/evil is a dumb metric. Who knows what the future holds. Celebrate the good when these companies are being good, but they are groups of people who wants your money, it's on a matter of time before some bad seeds take the controls on the top, and the reign of terror begins. At that point it is the customers job to vote with their wallets and attention.
Save the good/evil debate for Sunday morning at the religious services. Lets focus more on the self correcting system we have to keep tyrants from ruling with an iron fist, and prevents people from getting relaxed into inactivity.
- true_religion 15y agoIt's entirely plausible to be evil without breaking any laws. Good or evil, as words themselves are just descriptions for a companies motivations and plans. If a companies plans involve harming society whilst in search of profit, then they're "evil". Acting as a monopoly, and abusing your power until you're caught and censured is evil. Then trying to toe the line of monopoly abuse, so you're not censured again---is evil. It's profitable, but its clearly not to the benefit of society. -- > Lets focus more on the self correcting system we have to keep tyrants from ruling with an iron fist, and prevents people from getting relaxed into inactivity. Right, but then you'll have to ask the question: who is a tyrant? The short form of that is "who is evil?".