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Their profits pay pensions of the ordinary people. How is that not a good thing?

I would otherwise be 'on your side' but this is not a great take. Lockheed Martin's profits also help pay for pensions. Phillip-Morris as well. I don't think this makes their business actions a net good.

Lockheed Martin's profits pave way to Pax Americana, unprecedented peaceful period in world history, deter China and Russia and helped getting Saddam, Gaddafi and Miloshevich to justice. It would be a net good to humanity either way.

> I don't think anyone was saying this. Some airlines plant trees. That doesn't make planting trees bad.

So therefore anything that produces profits that pays pensions is a good thing? Wow.

Relativism is used as a universal cudgel to reason that some short-term good of limited scope, outweighs a widespread long term bad behavior.

Moral objectivism is more popular than moral relativism.

ie Some good does not outweigh lots of bad.

> Their profits pay pensions of the ordinary people. How is that not a good thing?

It's difficult to take your comment as anything but raw trolling, as it intentionally chooses to strawman limited benefit by ignoring obvious consequence.

Their profits exist solely because they exploit and steal from other ordinary people. Most ordinary people will lose far more money to labour or wage theft than they'll ever gain from profits.

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