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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EscherEnigma" data-source="post: 6259662" data-attributes="member: 6750014">Do you also apply this to Intel's decision to go for "conflict free minerals"?  That's a political statement to.  One that probably had an impact on the bottom line.  What about every advertisement ever?  Remember that big ol' flap because Cheerio's had a commercial with a bi-racial girl?  Or Coca-Cola's recent upset because they had America the Beautiful sung in different languages?  How would the marketing department ever function if they caved to your idea of "fairness" towards the employees?And where would that lead the company anyway?  If the executive leadership wants to continue to have the company behave in a way they view as moral, but they have to make sure they're "fair" to their employees, now they have to have an idealogical test before they hire anyone?I mean hell, Google annually gives away something like $100,000,000 (well, according to their own website anyway) in grants.  I'm pretty confident that not everyone at Google is going to agree with all the recipients.  And if you're asking them to wait for some sort of consensus among their employees, or even a majority, that's gonna take a while with 50000 employees.  So either they do no giving, or they shut down operations for at least a few days as everyone sits down to research the background of each and every possible grant recipient.To hell with fair, being "fair" doesn't sound terribly workable.</blockquote>

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