[PoBoy321]

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Ellwood, by that same reasoning, an American company that sold electrodes, and knowing that the Chinese intended to use them for electro-shock torture of prisoners, would feel obligated to sell them anyway in order to fulfill their responsibility to shareholders to make a buck any way possible. Like the German firms that sold supplies for concentration camp death chambers to the Nazi German government.

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No, I think that it's a completely irrelevant example.

A better example would be "In country A, you can not farm unless you use pesticide X because it prevents the growth of locust populations. In country B, you can not use pesticide X because they determined that it is detrimental to your health. So the Transnational Farming Company (TFC) doesn't use the pesticide in country B, but does use it in country A."

So is the TFC wrong for using a detrimental pesticides in country A and not controlling the locust population in country B? All they're doing is following the laws of the country they're trying to do business in.

Now, you can argue about the laws, but I don't think that you can argue about whether or not the company is wrong for obeying them.