Re:Bayer to retire Monsanto name
by SimbaOnSteroids on Monday June 04, 2018 @02:58PM
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What? Yes it is, if you know that X -> Y and you do X, you are responsible for Y. It doesn't matter weather Y was the raison du jour or not. A contract killer isn't suddenly off the hook for first degree murder just because their motivator was to make money.
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Responsible, yes. That doesn't mean intent. I'm not claiming Bayer isn't responsible, just that there is a difference between being horrible in the pursuit of money, and being horrible because you actually want harm to come to those people. One makes you responsible for death and destruction, the other puts you in the same category as the Nazis, who intentionally tried to eradicate the Jews.