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The problem with what you have said a million times is that by the time a company gets to the point where it is a major problem, it is also at the point where i
by egypturnash 3y ago
The problem with what you have said a million times is that by the time a company gets to the point where it is a major problem, it is also at the point where it has a lot of money going through it, and since corporations have absolutely no ethics, they are perfectly fine with spending a chunk of their profits on lobbying lawmakers to not change those laws.
I fault "Big Business" for completely ignoring ethics and morals in favor of profit. I fault every CEO who has made these decisions, I fault every minor worker who has done what they were told to do regardless of any moral qualms. They have all decided that they do not give a shit about the harm they cause as long as they are making enough money.
- TheSpiceIsLife 3y agoThen you ought blame society for seperating church and state, and substituting church with approximately nothing. If the state is amoral, it will swiftly be overrun my amorality.
- polygamous_bat 3y agoMinus the very strong assumption that religion is only possible source of morality.
- TheSpiceIsLife 3y agoGo right ahead and ignore my second sentence.
- marcosdumay 3y agoAnd the assumption that religion is not only moral on average (what's questionable), but also able to stay moral while given extraordinary power (shown to be false every single time people tried).
- gryfft 3y agoAh, but "the problem with the world today is that everyone else doesn't believe what my religion teaches" has an enormous feature that your arguments do not: It gives the one who holds this belief the comfort that _they_ have done everything that can and everything they should; all that is left is to be publicly smug. This is much easier to do than engaging closely with complicated ideas, and crucially can never result in deciding that it's necessary to go through the pain of changing one's own behavior or beliefs.
- marcosdumay 3y agoFunny thing is that this thought (the one you quote) is evil all by itself. No external help needed.
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- TheSpiceIsLife 3y ago[flagged]
- egypturnash 3y agoYeah, this is a problem. Separation of church and state is a good thing, but centering the profit motive as the highest ideal of a society is a pretty bad thing.
- TheSpiceIsLife 3y agoThanks for actually responding to my whole comment, rather than the half argument I didn't make in the sibling threads.