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From: colonel@ellie.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Tylenol roulette
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Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 11:21:57 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  7 11:21:57 1986
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Summary: more on who's to blame

> > concrete? Is it just that the interested parties are more comfortable
> > with the lone terrorist theory than shaking our faith in the system?
> 
> Based on your postings in net.politics, I think you would rather make
> a poorly reasoned statement like the one above, so you can blame big bad
> capitalism, rather than accept the fact that there are evil people out
> there who like to kill.

How does capitalism figure in this?  If blame is to be assigned to
something besides the poisoner, it's the company.  Whenever the head
of a organization treats his subordinates like dirt, his attitude poisons
the whole organization.  This is true on both sides of the iron curtain;
the poisonings could have happened just as easily in the USSR.

I'm not accusing Johnson & Johnson.  It _may_ be that the company
deserves what it's getting.  Had it given more consideration to
whom it hired and what it did with them afterwards, it might not be
in trouble now.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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