Safety and Legal Issues

I can, at times, be very profitable to kill your customers. Consider
the entire tobacco industry. The key requirement is to get their money
before they die. Tobacco takes decades to kill you, plenty of time to
extract money from the poor saps that get sucked in, usually at 13 or 14
years old.

Ravenart@... wrote:
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> In a message dated 2/14/02 9:04:22 AM, bestonnet_00@... writes:
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> << Death sentences are often handed out in the US to people who kill others.
> Wouldn't corporations that kill people just to increase their profit margain
> deserve the death sentence more then humans do? Afterall a corporation isn't
> conscious is it? >>
>
> There's a one major flaw in your statment. Why would a corporation want to
> kill their own customers?
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The dinosaurs weren't spacefaring. We are. I don't think that's an
accident. Maybe we are life's taxi to the stars.