[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by deccan:
This is an incredibly incendiary statement. So all big corporations are sleazy and immoral by default? Or is it the basic drive for profits itself that is immoral?

What are you asking for precisely? If McDonald's has broken any laws, then of course they should be punished for it. Perhaps you want to campaign for some additional laws to regulate companies like McDonalds. You are free to do so.

In the meantime, you are also free not to eat at MacDonalds and ask your friends and family members to do the same, in the same way that other people can decide for themselves whether or not McDonalds' practices are really horrible enough to make them boycott the firm's products. This is simply the court of public opinion.

Personally, I do eat at McDonalds from time to time, though not often, and it doesn't bother me the least.

This is an incredibly funny statement. How could it possibly be 'incendiary' to say that sleazy corporations are sleazy? Yes, since corporations have more influence on the writing of laws that govern corporations than the 'general public' (non-wealthy ordinary people) they are pretty much sleazy by default.

What would happen if athletes controlled the various sports governing bodies, and manipulated them to stop testing for steroid use? Obviously, athletes who did use steroids would start winning competitions and not getting caught, so they'd be making all the money and the honest athletes would be frozen out. In a relatively short time, you'd have almost nothing but steroid using atheletes in the national and international levels of most major catagories of sports. Would it then be 'incendiary' to say that these athletes are all steroid using cheats? I think even the few who were not using them and somehow staying in the competition would understand why people would say that.

As I hope anyone who watches the news is well aware, corporations have been writing their own rules for decades, with only the occasional break due to some huge scandal or other to reign them in a bit. All those Enron, Worldcom, Tyco, etc., executives were/are buddies of GW Bush and Dick Cheney and were personally visiting the White House to tell Santa-Bush what sham regulation they wanted as recently as Last year. Only the collapse of their companies has exposed the extreme cheating and stealing they were up to. You think there aren't hundreds or thousands of other executives doing the same thing but with just a tad more sense?

And no, I don't eat at McDonalds. Can't stand the food anymore. I wonder now how I could stand it when I was a kid.