These are anger responses. The oil spill is shitty, but forcing the companies to pay for their own mess really is justice. Are you really suggesting that we guillotine these guys?
Er no. Jail time. Criminally negligent homicide (echo...echo...echo....) There are more forms of justice besides reparations and executions.
It's not like they were being malicious, nobody wants to lose their vital resource and have to spend millions of dollars, even if they can actually do so.
So you're defending taking short cuts to maximize profits? Even though it resulted in the largest environmental disaster in US history and deaths in more than one instance? You're defending ignoring safety experts and employees who warn you the measures you're NOT taking is dangerous? Even though they bribed regulatory agencies to ridiculous levels to assure that safety regulations, there to protect workers, could be ignored without consequence, bribed them so they wouldn't even look at the wells which were essentially half built? All in the name of maximizing profit?
I didn't figure you for a neo-capitalist, and even less an apologist. I'm all for checking our anger, but not when it turns us into ****ing suckers.
What truly kills me is, if this were one man responsible for all the decision making, people would ask for his head. They would claim malice, because surely one man must have to take responsibility for so many reckless decisions.
But because they're a corporation, we some how diffuse the responsibility, so instead of a real penalty, it's just a bunch of little penalties sprinkled and trickled down the company and the economy. Corporate justice has always been a double standard compared to individual justice.
And corporations continue to feel secure enough to push the boundaries of their diffused liability. The whole banking collapse and all that BS is the same thing, minus people dying. Even though they practically brought the economy to its knees with risky lending practice and inventing wealth out of nothing, they get a free pass because oh oh, they don't have a malice, a corporation is different than an individual. Madoff went to jail and everyone thought they got justice; Madoff was just too stupid to insulate himself with a corporation.
So I want to see some real corporate accountability. Someone, an individual or a small group of people, made those decisions and they should be held responsible.