Re:Tech firms push back against White House efforts to diver...
by EpicEng on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @07:46PM
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In what way are their motivations relevant? You say yourself that you believe they are correct, why does anything else matter? If a bounty hunter arrests a murderer, does it matter that he's doing it because he has a financial motivation? If he were motivated only by the desire to do good would that change anything?
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Re:Tech firms push back against White House efforts to diver...
by throwaway2048 on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @08:16PM
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Because a parties motivation greatly affects possible outcomes. A bounty hunter's pay depends entirely on capture and return. You can be certain because of this their methods are going to be as effective and brutal as they can manage. A police officer gets paid if the suspect gets captured or not.
You can be sure if the American government manages to find a way they can properly compensate these companies for lost revenue and customers, they will cease to have any issue with it whatsoever.
Re:Tech firms push back against White House efforts to diver...
by d23 on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @08:34PM
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> If he were motivated only by the desire to do good would that change anything?
Sure. It would change my mind completely if I knew Bush genuinely was deceived by those around him and thought there were WMDs, rather than if I thought he knowingly lied to pursue an agenda for other reasons (e.g. boosting Haliburton's stock, settling a score, etc). I only bring that up because it's something I feel strongly about, yet I feel the motivation could change everything in my mind.