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Businesses act to maximize profits. There is nothing immoral about this.

I really disagree with this worldview.

When business dump toxic byproducts into water supplies, in places where nobody has yet legislated against that, is it not immoral?

I agree it's up to the lawmakers to change things, by the way, but I don't agree that it's always the right thing to do for companies to walk as close to the line of illegal behaviour as it's possible to get, just to maximise profit.



> When business dump toxic byproducts into water supplies, in places where nobody has yet legislated against that, is it not immoral?

The morality of it is irrelevant because it is deemed to be an infraction of a law in most places




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