Doing something that hurts other people less fortunate than you under the guise of it being "just business" makes you more of an antisocial sociopath, not less. - eviltoast

Would I hurt other people in some strange hypothetical to literally save my family’s life from certain death? Maybe, and I’d be guilt ridden about it for the rest of my life.

Would I hurt people to make more money? Of course not, and that’s not a defensible reason to hurt others… at all, and it makes you deeply broken at your core, especially as habit.

Really the only thing I can think of as a more horrifying reason to be cruel to others than “for money herp derp” would be “because its fun!”

Hurting others for profit in the name of business shouldn’t be a defense, it should be considered an admission of guilt and come with consequences.

  • Pronell@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I would argue that it shows how blinded one can be by the demands placed upon us by capitalism. We think about the rewards more than the karmic costs, because it’s easy to think about what you got at Walmart but abstract how that’s undermined life all over.