• blarghly@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    I mean, this is literally the basis of the trolley problem, and the divergence of several major schools of moral thought.

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      9 days ago

      Umm. No. No offense, but that’s patently ridiculous.

      A corporation chose a distasteful policy to avoid the possibility of losing profits due to negative press. There are no lives at risk. The only risk is “brr! line must go up”

      To equate such morally detestable behavior to minimizing actual suffering and loss is bizarre and nonsensical at best. At worst, it’s nothing more than helping whitewash the vile and disgusting crimes of an apartheid warmongering regime.

      There is no nuance here. They capitulated to genocidal bigotry to maximize profits.