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So your lack of cynicism here is because you have knowledge of their internal processes and not because you are logically concluding companies would prefer to b
by DSingularity 3y ago
So your lack of cynicism here is because you have knowledge of their internal processes and not because you are logically concluding companies would prefer to be vague over risking the need to backtrack later.
I say this because I have 0 faith in corporations. I believe corporate decision making is guided by (a) what they can get away with and (b) what minimizes their downside.
- dspillett 3y agoI don't lack the cynicism. I just temper it with the knowledge that it is possible, however unlikely, that they aren't being completely disingenuous arseholes 100% of the time. Accepting a more generous explanation could be true doesn't mean I'm going to believe it actually is without further evidence!
- registeredcorn 3y agoI'm pretty much on the same page as you with this! When it comes to aviation related issues, I tend to assume corporate reasoning to go something like: They make somewhat of a better effort to be sincere, not because they are somehow more trustworthy than in other fields, but rather because of the fear they have if they were caught in a lie. With something like software, it might suck, but they could generally pay a fine, or testify in front of congress and move on with their life. With something involving aviation, they could be culpable for the loss of human life, or have a permanent mark of being unsafe ala TWA. This isn't even to say that I would necessarily believe that the executives of these companies would care about the loss of human life, but merely that the risks associated with getting caught are so much higher that, even someone with an inability to feel empathy would understand how damaging it would be to their career - it would be in their best interest to pretend to have integrity.