Moyers & Company
had a show on this evening about toxic chemicals and such and how they’re bad
just because they poison people and stuff. And then the experts on the show
said that companies that market toxic stuff like lead paint “simply wash their
hands of responsibility.” And I thought, hey, they probably formulated this
responsibility-washing soap from toxic chemicals, and that’s what they use all
that stuff for. They’re not trying to poison people so much as they just want
to be able to wash their hands clean of responsibility! Because there’s so much
more for companies to want to wash their hands clean of than just
responsibility for dangerous chemicals and lead poisoning and so forth.
So
maybe the corporate world thinks it’s worth it to accidentally poison people
from the dangerous chemical residue from their Responsibility-B-Gone Soap-making process, because
then it will allow them to wash their hands clean of responsibility for every
imaginable form of malfeasance! Now what, if you’re a company guilty of
malfeasance, wouldn’t it be worth it to you to be able to make a product that
washes your hands clean of responsibility for all of your malfeasance? And when
you think about it, from their point of view, it really wouldn’t matter what
kinds of ill effects such a soap’s production might have on everyone else,
because after all, once they have the soap, they can wash their hands of
responsibility for that too, so what’s the difference?
But it’s silly, when you think about it, that they’d even go
to the trouble of making such a thing as responsibility-washing hand soap,
because after all, all they really have to do to get away with any kind of
malfeasance imaginable is to be too big to fail. What else do you need if
you’re a greedy, irresponsible, corrupt company that harms people on a massive
scale than the massive scale upon which to harm people? I mean, that’s just
common sense, isn’t it? But I guess it’s no skin off their nose if they harm
even more people in developing and manufacturing a toxic product like
responsibility-cleaning hand soap for washing their hands of responsibility,
because after all, they’re too big to fail, so they’ll get away with it anyway,
and think of all the money they can make by selling it to companies guilty of
malfeasance that aren’t too big to fail (yet)! So not only will they get away
with it, but so will everyone else, and they’ll all get massively rich in the
process; and then pretty soon they’ll all be too big to fail, and they can do
and get away with anything no matter what it is! And think of how much money
they’ll make from that!
