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It’s a manipulative tactic. Businesses have no soul and no conscience.


It's arguable that businesses are subject to the same morality-inducing processes that humans are. For example, as a human (with a soul?) what is at risk when we do something immoral? I see it to be a reputational cost at the highest level. Morality could be viewed from the perspective that it increases predictability/coherence in society (generates less heat).


If societal feedback is the only thing keeping a human from deviating in catastrophic ways, that’s what we call a sociopath.


The humans working there do. To state otherwise is to absolve those humans of any responsibility.


Did I state otherwise though?


Did I say you stated otherwise?



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