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That’s bullshit, my retort wasn’t simple misdirection, I was asking you to elaborate on your moral stance and highlighted other issues I felt were abject by comparison.
My moral stance? When you think about morals, what is moral to you?
A company that produces products based upon psychological research into addiction, who then weaponizes that research into products that converted millions of normal people into losers who think that working a fast food job is good enough?
Is that moral to you?
You kind of have to know that after playing those games for awhile, that it's the same thing as being addicted to gambling or drugs.
My moral stance was that I felt that it was a good thing for the world, that a company run by some of the greediest people on the planet, who's goal in life was to turn as many people as they could into junkies and losers, was finally getting what they deserve.
I would short their stock too, but I honestly think it's just too late.
I'll be fair and I'll point out that we have see how this goes, because I confident that they have a good chance to recover from this.
I'm sure they'll just bribe their way out of it like every other company does, so it's not like I expect them to go bankrupt like the Weinstein company or Enron.
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Instead of replying about your concern for the well-being of US workers (which at first wasn’t even your point, you stated you didn’t like that Blizzard retained legal representation which had assisted in other immoral cases) you retorted with an excuse about how you’d rather focus on educating people to eat with utensils because that’s easier to advocate for than the ethical treatment of human beings. You then elaborated on your objective superiority and how if you were in power you would execute people for not eating with utensils to instil fear in them and force compliance.
Now you're being totally dishonest. A hypothetical situation was created that will never happen and I was asked what I do would do in that situation.
I'm not a politician, but if you think that's not how they think you're wrong.
Politicians think that your average person is vermin, they're just scum that they have deal with, and they just trick people into voting for them because they want power.
If you're from the US, you're probably not used to it, but there's been a long history of absolute pure scum politicians across the planet.
The concept was somewhat new to the US because the politicians there historically have always done a good job of hiding their hatred of the lower order of society.
Not really since 2016 though and
I'm definitely no where near as bad as you think I am, because I'm not out there using my position of power to lie to people because I expect them to die for me...I would expect people to comply for their own good and avoid death, not expect them to die because I ordered them to. Do you understand the difference?
Don't kid yourself, hatred, power, and greed is what motivates politicians. They're either greedy and hate the weak, or they want power and they hate the greedy.
Personally, I'm just going with the flow, and I know it's wrong to mistreat my employees, so I don't do that.
There's no real point because my company outsources the bulk of the work to the Philippines and when the work comes back from the agency that we work with, we don't get a report about how badly the employees were abused, but I am aware that their salary is only like $300USD/month, so I assume that the working conditions are borderline slave camp.
They're probably catching and cooking up iguanas to eat on their lunch break.
If I was hypothetically a monarch, like was asked, the way it would work is: My subordinates
would follow the rules because if they don't, there's a strong possibility that they would get their head removed.
Especially a situation like with covid-19: If they don't want to put a mask on or get vaccinated, that's fine as long as they understand that at some point some of those people are going to be rounded up and publicly mass executed.
What do you think would have been worse in the US; Publicly executing one thousand people for not complying with the mandates so that the rest are too scared not to comply? Or publicly encouraging people to spread a deadly disease that killed 600k+ people, so that their company can get a handout from the government?
That's exactly what happened: Corporate American couldn't be bothered to care and their attitude was "People die all the time and we need ones that haven't died yet to get them back to work."
And people liked it... Some of them
actually fought for it... They were lining up to potentially die for some person to profit off of their corpse...
Meanwhile the companies just stuck their hands out and said "Gimmie gimmie gimmie" while they pushed the dead bodies out.
Back to the hypothetical question: If I was a monarch, I would absolutely never allow some peon to infect me with a disease and I would have done the right thing.
If that happened, they would get the Kim Jong-un treatment, where they stand in one spot and get used as target practice for mortar tubes.
If they don't want to comply with the mandates, that's fine, they can just accidentally fall off a building like they do all the time in Russia.
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I’ll give you a pass on lithium batteries because they’re more unreasonable to avoid, but you obviously don’t give a fuck about the issues in that industry either, seeing as how callous you’ve been explained yourself to be.
Solid state batteries are coming, right now it's unavoidable.
To be fair: It's not that I don't care, it's that I care more about issues like Montrose Chemical Corp, who dumped 500,000 50-gallon barrels of DDT into the ocean...
The excuse was "the only way to get rid of it is to dilute it." It was cheaper to poison a huge part of the ocean than it was to react it with another chemical to make it safe to store.
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You’re a charlatan, and I’m finished discussing anything with you further. Good luck in your future.
A charlatan, Wow. I've been called a lot of things, but I don't think anyone has ever called me that before. Thanks, you too, hopefully you learned something about my perspective (it's far more common than you think it is) and can somehow use that to help yourself.