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philipallstaryesterday at 1:05 PM2 repliesview on HN

All of this is a crazy overgeneralisation of the hundreds of millions of companies in the world:

> Look, there is no way corporations would lie for their own interest. Especially when they spent tens of billions to develop something.

> It's not like they sold us leaded gasoline or "healthy tobacco" for decades.


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sumenoyesterday at 1:15 PM

If I say "Ted is the Unibomber" do you think I'm saying everyone named Ted is the Unibomber? This is basic reading comprehension stuff

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ModernMechyesterday at 1:11 PM

Saying "corporations have lied in the past for their own self interest" and then pointing to two very well known examples does not imply or over generalize that all corporations do that.

The point isn't to demonize all corporations, it's to say specifically that a pathology of some megacorporations is broadscale lying to the public about the safety of their products for personal gain.