Tech company faces negligence lawsuit after Philip Paxson died from driving off a North Carolina bridge destroyed years ago

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    • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      Bizarre thinking. Some rest stop owner puts up a tourist map pointing someone off a bridge and they wouldn’t hold any responsibility in your mind, not a tiny bit of moral responsibility if someone drove off the bridge while following the map’s advice?

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          1 year ago

          You don’t think corporations have any sort of moral responsibility? That’s fucked up, ngl. Of course corporations should have moral responsibility for their actions (or inaction).

          This is about legal liability.

          I said “some responsibility”. You mentioned legal liability. I think there’s lots more to responsibility than just who is legally liable. To me that seems like a no brainer.

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            This is an article about being sued. If your want to change the scope you should be specific to what you’re expanding too.

            And no, corporations are run by thousands of people all with a wide and diverse definition of ethical. I do not place ethical standards on them whatsoever. I expect them to act within the legal limits of the country of operation and what public opinion will tolerate. To expect anything otherwise is silly.

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              1 year ago

              I just talked about responsibility. It by default is a wider thing than just legal responsibility.

              And no, corporations are run by thousands of people all with a wide and diverse definition of ethical. I do not place ethical standards on them whatsoever.

              That’s fucking grim.

              what public opinion will tolerate

              What is that public opinion based on if not in part on moral judgement?

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                1 year ago

                The public is happy to buy from companies that engage in unethical behavior. There is a higher bar that is tolerated before consumers will stop purchasing products however.

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                  1 year ago

                  I just meant that that’s often morality based, as in general public holds companies to some moral standard. Often it’s a fairly low standard though, as you’ve pointed out.

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          1 year ago

          As much as I disagree with the idea that corporations don’t have a moral responsibility I suggest you read their comment anyway, since otherwise the convo doesn’t make much sense.

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              1 year ago

              Sure am. I just can’t wrap my head around the idea that someone giving someone directions would have zero part in the eventual accident when those directions were faulty.

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                  1 year ago

                  You think it’s logical to say someone giving directions had no part in what happened? Zero part, had nothing to do it?

                  Right… Logical.