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Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
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Mon, 31 Jan 2000 05:15:15 GMT
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Jasper Janssen wrote in message <389abd55.92129852@lugnet.com>...
Only the ultra-large
multinational companies (which will, of course, under this system,
resettle in the EU, China, or Japan...) can sustain multi-million
dollar settlements, let alone Pinto-like Billion-dollar-settlements.

   Oh yeah, that really worries me.

I assert that in a climate of personal responsibility that libertopia is
going to foster, most companies are going to do the right thing for a
number of reasons... among them, that it's the right thing to do, that

It already is the right thing to do.

  But its easy to get away with not doing it.

it's good PR, that when the shoe is on the other foot that's what they'd
want, that it is what their owners will demand, and, lastly and least

These are already all the case.

importantly, to keep the CEO and his subordinates out of jail.

Christ, man, go take a psychology class or something and come back to
this then. Or if you've already had one, untake it, cause you've
learnt entirely the wrong set of pseudo-scientific psychobabble.

   Move to China for ten years, and come back to this then.  Better yet,
just unlearn everything you "know".
Jasper


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   Have fun!
   John
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  Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
 
(...) Try "either the CEO is personally liable for everything his subordinates do, or those people actually committing the mistakes are". (...) What if "some damages" comes out to more than they can pay? In the majhority of cases, this is in fact (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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