PETA asks town of Fishkill, NY to change name

[Beirut]

Ohh the evil corporations.

The other side of the story is that these companies provide jobs and services that people rely on. If they are in fact, as you claim, killing people you should petition your government to stop them.

The problem is that the corporations line the pockets of government so that the authorities turn a blind eye. It is through public pressure that change occurs. That public pressure is spawned by movements like Greenpeace who make the people aware of corporate transgressions and force the government to make changes.

If they break the law, they should be punished by the government of the country in which the law was broken. There is absolutely no place for vigilanties to pass arbitrary judgement on a company and punish it.

Sure there is. When a company that pollutes and endangers the public will not stop, and the government will not force it to stop, then it is up to the people to make it stop.

Aren't you for the carrying of handguns? Why don't you just petition the government of your country to control crime? Why should you act the vigilante and pass arbitrary judgement on an individual and punish him?

If you feel one person has the right to act outside the norms of civilized behaviour to protect himself, why cannot a group of people act outside the norms of civilized behaviour to protect themselves?

If that is the case, whats to stop a company from using criminal activity to fight back?

They do. They also have millions and millions and millions for lawyers to tie up the courts for years to avoid making changes. Meanwhile, people continue to get sick and die and the company goes on making it's profits over their dead bodies.

I am still curious why you are so hot tempered about Greenpeace and their heinous acts of trespassing, but yet you remain calm, cool, and diplomatic when speaking of companies that dump thousands of tons of poisonous waste into the water supply.

Do you really believe that Greepeace climbing a smokestack and hanging a banner is a more horrible act than a company dumping dioxin sludge into rivers and lakes?

[Fragony]

If I was ever to eat a dolphin salad PETA made me do it. What a bunch of morons.