re: #979 Obdicut

Well, Iossarian does have somewhat of a point. Capitalists, for example, did run the Lowell mills with little safety precautions, even though they knew it causes death and dismemberment. Likewise, BP proceeded— as I understand it, and please correct me if I’m wrong— with an unsafe plan even though they knew it was risky. They didn’t deliberately blow it up, but they deliberately gambled with probabilities in a way that did directly lead to it blowing up. In addition, capitalists have often murdered labor organizers— and not just in the past, but recently, like Santiago Rafael Cruz.

eh. humans cut corners. unions cut corners. attorneys general cut corners. Iossarian, i’m sure, would be the first to tell me that Bush cut corners.

we all have an incentive to cut corners. the analogy smells like a formaldehyde-soaked shark in vertebrate biology lab.

(trust me…shark oil + formaldehyde = baaad)