Posted: May 31, 2022 6:16 pm
Chief Engineer wrote:This is why I chose to think the executives bare this label in the first example. They are the "smartest" in the company, probably educated to understand research papers. That they took action to enrich the group would not be a mitigating factor in my thoughts about Evil. They did so because they were unwilling to save the company profits by selling something else. Good Executives think of new paths to profit.
I don't know that I would assume that executives are necessarily educated to understand research papers; I would assume it more likely that they would hire others to perform research and explain said research to them.
I think there's still room to argue this particular point. Let's take fossil fuel industries for example. They could, hypothetically, transition to greener methods of energy production; however, such transitions are naturally costly, and seeing as these alternative methods of energy production haven't been as heavily invested in as fossil fuels have, such companies would bare the brunt of infrastructure costs as well as innovating better methods of generating and utilizing such energy. That's a real hard sell to make, y'know?
I feel the same way about those who understand the tragedy of Texas maybe even feel sorry for those innocents, but show glee at doing something that cannot help and probably makes the situation worse. Profits that move into Political Campaigns for sure are in this situation but more indirectly then a cigarette company. The mindset that displayed glee in putting more guns wandering the streets, it's an unmasking of evil.
Well, I certainly don't care to argue against gun regulation. Still, I certainly don't expect gun manufacturers to decide that their bottom line is worth the well being of the US populace. Their bottom line is their lifeblood, after all. Built into the for profit model, that.