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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Dial back the rhetoric, son? Dial up the google, dad.
In the last year they've been fined 82 million bucks for environmental crimes, and they are currently being investigated for corruption, bribery, and labor infractions.
None of this is unethical or criminal, I guess.
We're not all as smart as you, I'll admit that. It takes a special kind of genius to miss this stuff.
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Every company and every individual in the world is guilty of something or has done something unethical in the past; that does not give me the right to do something unethical to them in return. There is no equilibrium of morality where I am given a certain threshold/leeway to conduct crime and pursue anarchy against a corporation or individual to balance things out just because they've done something questionable themselves.
If it's your own selfish concern and your own private rights and privileges you care about, then you have to realize that everybody who abuses the social constructs that we have called laws and ethics, contributes to the additional burden of laws/punishments imposed on us and more and more freedoms taken away.
It takes a special genius to argue that because somebody dumped some bylaw breaking chemicals in the sewer outside his house that I have the right to trick him out of his property and also kick them in the balls while I'm at it.