Presumably most people also wouldn’t be particularly concerned with what the average is. If all companies have human rights records ranging from bad to terrible, surely it’s no compliment to be above average.

I disagree. I find the notion that everyone is a little evil therefore it is ok to be any level of evil, to be morally repungent.

repugnant

I would call that notion repugnant. It bares no resemblance to anything I said.

That’d be the median, not the average.

Torturers Inc, that operates in $country_i_hate & tortures over 10,000 people each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Fair point, although i would generally assume that ethical behaviour of companies is normally distributed.

Median/mean/mode/geometric are all types of averages.

Then, mathematically, the original statement makes no sense.

The mode isn't any kind of average at all.