Tech company faces negligence lawsuit after Philip Paxson died from driving off a North Carolina bridge destroyed years ago

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    1 year ago

    Bizarre thinking. Some rest stop owner puts up a tourist map pointing someone off a bridge and they wouldn’t hold any responsibility in your mind, not a tiny bit of moral responsibility if someone drove off the bridge while following the map’s advice?

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        1 year ago

        You don’t think corporations have any sort of moral responsibility? That’s fucked up, ngl. Of course corporations should have moral responsibility for their actions (or inaction).

        This is about legal liability.

        I said “some responsibility”. You mentioned legal liability. I think there’s lots more to responsibility than just who is legally liable. To me that seems like a no brainer.

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            1 year ago

            I just talked about responsibility. It by default is a wider thing than just legal responsibility.

            And no, corporations are run by thousands of people all with a wide and diverse definition of ethical. I do not place ethical standards on them whatsoever.

            That’s fucking grim.

            what public opinion will tolerate

            What is that public opinion based on if not in part on moral judgement?

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        1 year ago

        As much as I disagree with the idea that corporations don’t have a moral responsibility I suggest you read their comment anyway, since otherwise the convo doesn’t make much sense.

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            1 year ago

            Sure am. I just can’t wrap my head around the idea that someone giving someone directions would have zero part in the eventual accident when those directions were faulty.

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                1 year ago

                You think it’s logical to say someone giving directions had no part in what happened? Zero part, had nothing to do it?

                Right… Logical.

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                    1 year ago

                    They obviously have responsibility for their part… 🤦‍♂️

                    You are moving the bar

                    You previously replied to me asking if they have no part and said “that is the only logical conclusion”… If you didn’t get what I meant you should’ve probably mentioned this moving the bar then and not after you gave a silly answer to the question. Better look if nothing else.