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A couple of interesting things I see in this.

The first is why are we surprised? Capitalism as promoted in this country is supposed to work like this. The business has one goal - to make more money - and complies with laws only in so far as it costs less to do so than to break them. Only people have morality and ethics and can make the decision that they are more important than profit. These people were apparently bereft of that quality, but I can't believe that had they held to the good and true they wouldn't have been fired and replaced, because that would maximise the company's profit.

The second is that businesses take advantage of being legally people in many ways, though this is in not way part of our constitution. People have rights. Businesses have no rights except in that they are made up of people and additionally we have granted them many rights as though they are people.

When people break the law enough, we lock them away forever or impose the death penalty. Businesses can do much much more before being "killed". Also, punishing the business often insulates the people inside the business who made the actual decisions, again allowing them to easily push their morality away. If it were really wrong, they think, they'd be punished for it, but they're not really, only the business is.

-andy, flooded with antibusiness cynicism

I've always been intrigued by Credo, but never run into a copy. Is it actually a good game, or one of those games carried by your appreciation of the joke?

Maybe the MPAA should rate this thing NC-17 for explicit religion. What if that had been a couple of teenagers arguing over a doctrinal point that got their blood up? Won't someone please think of the children?

Good stuff that, and not just for fiction. I can think of many technical documents I read that could have done without the part that readers tend to skip. Good technical prose is only as obtrusive as necessary.

But then, I've been reading too much of the stuff recently.

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