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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 8933879" data-attributes="member: 8461">No, I believe that the line is very clear, to the point of being self-evident.To that end, I predicted that you'd attempt to blur that line in an attempt to bolster your previous suggestion that every large company is just as harmful as Big Tobacco, and that therefore any condemnation of such activities is easily dismissed. And unsurprisingly, that's exactly the position that you took.Hence, I'll simply say that it's highly disingenuous, as well as unethical, to state that fast food is either as chemically addictive or as harmful as tobacco products. Nor do tobacco products have any positive impact that offsets their drawbacks the way fast food at least offers some degree of personal sustenance, nor that they offer any service which can be helpful the way banks are. Your assertions that they're of a piece are easy to reject in that regard, not only because they're inappropriate, but because they obscure the issue at hand, rather than clarify it. To that end, I'll bring things back around to the main point:Altria has inflicted more harm upon a greater number of people for a longer period of time than Milo Yiannopoulos has, and therefore working for them is more immoral than working for him; this holds true even if you try to say that the number of people who work for the former is so much greater that it &quot;dilutes&quot; the culpability, since people who were in the upper ranks of the organization – like Williams – are still more responsible for its actions. Furthermore, Williams being a woman in no way ameliorates that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 8933879, member: 8461"] No, I believe that the line is very clear, to the point of being self-evident. To that end, I predicted that you'd attempt to blur that line in an attempt to bolster your previous suggestion that every large company is just as harmful as Big Tobacco, and that therefore any condemnation of such activities is easily dismissed. And unsurprisingly, that's exactly the position that you took. Hence, I'll simply say that it's highly disingenuous, as well as unethical, to state that fast food is either as chemically addictive or as harmful as tobacco products. Nor do tobacco products have any positive impact that offsets their drawbacks the way fast food at least offers some degree of personal sustenance, nor that they offer any service which can be helpful the way banks are. Your assertions that they're of a piece are easy to reject in that regard, not only because they're inappropriate, but because they obscure the issue at hand, rather than clarify it. To that end, I'll bring things back around to the main point: Altria has inflicted more harm upon a greater number of people for a longer period of time than Milo Yiannopoulos has, and therefore working for them is more immoral than working for him; this holds true even if you try to say that the number of people who work for the former is so much greater that it "dilutes" the culpability, since people who were in the upper ranks of the organization – like Williams – are still more responsible for its actions. Furthermore, Williams being a woman in no way ameliorates that. [/QUOTE]

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