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Re: McDonald's, LEGO and Ethics
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 9 Sep 1999 19:48:40 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jeremy Sproat writes:
> Eric Kingsley wrote:
> > I would hope that LEGO would not
> > cross market with the companies you have above like 'Dow' or 'Monsanto' but
> > they have in the past with Exxon and Shell (two of my least favorite
> > companies see Alaska and South Africa respectively) so who knows? (I doubt
> > the chemical plant would sell very well anyway unless of course it could
> > explode and spread toxic goo all over Town Jr.).
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> I'd buy the chem plant. The parts would be tres cool.
Oh yeah, me too. Thousands of feet of scaffolded pipe, water cooling towers,
20 story processing plants, huge storage tanks... the list of cool looking
stuff is endless. I should know - I work at Dow.
> And why not sell a model depicting a chemical plant? I don't see anything
> inherently wrong with manufacture -- I like to have stuff.
Me neither. Before anyone gets too zealous decrying chemical plants(1), think:
no plant, no plastic, no Lego.
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
1:And similar straightforward examples can be make for just about every
industry you can think of. The moral authority ofthose who attack big
business is consitently undermined by their own support of said business.
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| (...) I'd buy the chem plant. The parts would be tres cool. And why not sell a model depicting a chemical plant? I don't see anything inherently wrong with manufacture -- I like to have stuff. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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