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Governments tend to be corrupt by their very nature.
by goodluckchuck 2y ago
Governments tend to be corrupt by their very nature.
- kranke155 2y agoCorporations and billionaires however...
- brigadier132 2y agoTalk to me when a corporation can be blamed for millions of human deaths.
- diggan 2y agoDevils advocate, but what about tobacco companies Philip Morris International and British American Tobacco?
- nec4b 2y agoDid they march people by millions into gulags or concentration camps?
- rbanffy 2y agoNo. They convinced them to willingly use addictive substances that would kill them while, at the same time, suppressing research into the negative effects of smoking and paying lobbying groups to prevent legislation against smoking. But... Yeah... They were a bit more subtle.
- nec4b 2y ago>> They were a bit more subtle. Moral relativism at its finest, when a person selling cigarettes at a gas station is equal to Pol Pot. I'm curious where would you rather live: 1. A place where they sell cigarettes and deceive you how dangerous they are, but you don't have to buy them if you don't want to. 2. A place where you and you family can be disappeared in the middle of the night. Mind you you can still get cigarettes here as well, but with a lot less variety.
- Hamuko 2y agoHow high is Boeing's death toll at the moment?
- lobocinza 2y agoBoeing is a military contractor strongly backed up by the US government.
- ziddoap 2y agoTobacco companies, alcohol companies, all the companies that support the military industrial complex?
- brigadier132 2y agoI should've been more clear. I meant murders. And blaming companies that produce weapons for the deaths caused by them is silly.
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- rbanffy 2y agoOh... Now we are selecting the method... Knowingly creating addicts to something that causes cancer (both tobacco and alcohol) is OK since when?
- brigadier132 2y agoSo, since I don't want to shift goal posts and I originally said deaths not murder. Even if we include all tobacco and opiate related deaths, governments are winning in the death toll game by a lot. And if we factor in pollution related deaths we will also need to factor in lives saved from products produced by businesses as well. So I don't think you are winning this argument.
- bamboozled 2y agoOil companies, air pollution has killed millions but they have lobbied hard to keep us on the black heroin.
- brigadier132 2y agoOk, so for every life lost that can directly be blamed on pollution from oil how many were saved due to mechanized agriculture?
- bamboozled 2y agoThat agriculture could've been electrified a long time ago
- rbanffy 2y ago> Talk to me when a corporation can be blamed for millions of human deaths. Philip Morris? Purdue Pharma? American auto industry and seatbelts?
- goodluckchuck 2y ago… engage in corruption only to the extent that it is profitable or it otherwise suits their desires / morality. Governments however, will be corrupt even when corruption loses them money and is contrary to their own self-interest.
- bamboozled 2y agoThis is a silly comment.
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