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There's nothing hypothetical here. No could be used, is used for propaganda. - Regime has a track record of human rights abuses - Company takes payment, sends
by throwaway346434 4y ago
There's nothing hypothetical here. No could be used, is used for propaganda.
- Regime has a track record of human rights abuses
- Company takes payment, sends out judge, stamps out record
- Company takes a stance as "family values oriented"
- Company is then subjected to press coverage pointing out they are working with human rights abuser.
- The only public statement they have made is in support of their "record holders". Nothing revoked, revisited, reviewed.
If they had "family values", why wouldn't they do this upon learning about who they work with?
It's been a number of years, and they have done nothing.
This is not the consistent position worthy of respect you think it is.
You additionally keep going back to devil's advocate about choices you could make as an individual. You seem to decline to look further into what is happening between a regime lead by an individual and a for profit company, beyond holding them up as... admirable.
If you did, you would now know the individual in question does things like take political prisoners, expose the population to harm (mass participation record attempts during a pandemic), spend billions on world record attempt buildings, and more.
It's clear cut. The company involved is not achieving any tangible real world good. They are protecting someone who paid them.
Building the world's biggest X is not providing any social value.
To pretend that a giant statue record is the same as a school or hospital is disingenuous.
- s1artibartfast 4y agoLike I said, I don't think we will see eye to eye. I basically laid it all out in my first post. Some people don't see it as wrong to work with bad people if you don't directly hurt anyone. You obviously disagree. More evidence that someone is bad doesn't change this.
- woojoo666 4y agoThis discussion reminds me a lot about the debate around separating art from the artist, for example whether or not it's ok to like a Chris Brown song despite his history of extreme domestic abuse