Food Sickens Millions as Company-Paid Checks Find It Safe

[August]

Originally Posted by Platapus

But but but we should trust corporations to do the right thing.

A corporation would never compromise safety for profit.

That's crazy talk.

Regulations and government inspections only cut profits. The other results are just the "cost of doing business".

To corporations, customers are fungible.

You're absolutely right Plat. Only by heaping tons of expensive and crippling regulations on domestic companies can we ensure that they'll still have bad apples that manage to get around them.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by August

You're absolutely right Plat. Only by heaping tons of expensive and crippling regulations on domestic companies can we ensure that they'll still have bad apples that manage to get around them.

Well it is not a perfect solution but the best we can have, unfortunately.

[August]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Well it is not a perfect solution but the best we can have, unfortunately.

I don't know about that. These regulations are written and enforced by people who can't, who won't, differentiate between a shiv and a plastic butter knife in a students lunch, who will seize an old couples home because they made the mistake of turning in their pot growing grandson to the cops, or who will continue to prosecute four teenagers for rape even though he knows they didn't do it.

I trust them less than I do corporations.

[mookiemookie]

The perfect solution fallacy is a logical fallacy that occurs when an argument assumes that a perfect solution exists and/or that a solution should be rejected because some part of the problem would still exist after it were implemented. This is a classic example of black and white thinking, in which a person fails to see the complex interplay between multiple component elements of a situation or problem, and as a result, reduces complex problems to a pair of binary extremes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana...lution_fallacy