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I wrote "the ford pinto memo", not "the ford pinto".

The point wasn't whether the car was okay, it was about the amoral behaviour of the company. Ford crossed a line between wanting to produce something to a given spec; and depraved indifference to the damage the errors in the design would cause. It only sounds like a subtle difference.

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Please read the article about the myth. The memo is not specially evil. Its decision is based on NHTSA. The company and the government agency are pretty rational. But it just tells us even we are rational, the complexity of the world is much more unpredictable.

Companies and governments should be amoral but rational. otherwise church and state will not be able to separated from each other. To me, moralistic companies/governments do more harm than welfare to humanity.

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