From: Jeff Davis (jrd1415@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jul 11 2003 - 13:18:08 MDT
--- Robin Hanson <rhanson@gmu.edu> wrote:
> When would you say that a corporation that
> consistently continues to
> pollute, even though its PR denies it, "really
> wants" to not pollute?
In the gut of the executive group, survival is
paramount, and profitability only a hairbreadth
behind.
It is not so much that they "want" to pollute--I would
say they most certainly and scrupulously "want" to not
pollute--but the bedrock principle of survival forces
them to "do what a man's gotta do".
Choice and "want" are luxuries in the jungle.
Survival is all.
Regarding self-deception, I would ask, "Where is the
jungle, really? Out there, or in here (taps self
mid-chest, slightly left of center)?"
Best, Jeff Davis
"We don't see things as they are,
we see them as we are."
Anais Nin
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