[ExI] Private and government R&D

Stathis Papaioannou stathisp at gmail.com
Tue Jul 21 03:44:39 UTC 2009


2009/7/21 Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com>:

> ### It's all crap, you know?
>
> The main thing is, we should not commit violence. End of
> (consequentialist) moral story. It is wrong to initiate violence, no
> matter what a fine yarn about low cost and helping the poor the
> socialist teachers instilled in your mind.

I'm also opposed to initiating violence. Letting people die from
treatable illness, or due to lack of food and shelter, might not be
"initiating violence" in your book but it is in mine. And that's only
if business is stupid enough to be bound by ethical consisderations
when expediency suggests otherwise.


-- 
Stathis Papaioannou



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