Anti-Capitalist Sentiment (with some morality)

[Renton]

I'm not sure what argument you're trying to make here. Obviously corporations are going to act in a way that maximizes their profits. I'm just saying I'd rather they didn't have the power to use the state to further their interests.

Also what is with this anti-profit stuff? Tobacco companies employ people and provide a product that people are happy to buy. People are generally very aware of the risks of inhaling tar and radioactive metals. They would be aware of this regardless of state regulations because science doesn't need permission from the state to exist. You are deeply cynical about people.

[a500lbgorilla]

People are generally very aware of the risks of inhaling tar and radioactive metals. They would be aware of this regardless of state regulations because science doesn't need permission from the state to exist. You are deeply cynical about people.

This is wrong. Not black and white wrong because of how you word it, but wrong. Science is aimless and needs to be fed. Some science can be fed by the profit motive - computers and electronics are an amazing example of this, chemistry is another, thermodynamics another still. But global warming absolutely is not. The link between carcinogens and cancer another. The discovery of DNA another still... Discoveries fed by the state... subatomic particles and nuclear energy another, hell, thermodynamics and aerodynamics probably belong on the fed by the state side of things as they were both enormously driven by the state.

PS States are good and bad. You focus on the bad, I remind you of the good, don't go calling me pro-statist now.