• El Barto@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Having a lucid brain when making decisions that could affect tons of people. Like driving a school bus.

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      1 day ago

      Adults can choose where to work or what to eat. Children require protection. I guess the example doesn’t make sense to me.

      I respectfully agree to disagree.

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        15 hours ago

        Of course they can. I never said the contrary. But an adult does not have the right to perform actions under the influence that could endanger others.

        This is not even an anti-pot or anti-booze comment, if that’s what you’re assuming.

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          8 hours ago

          Nope, its not really that I disagree with you all that much. Private businesses get to male their own rules to a larger extent than public entities is all.

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            6 hours ago

            Not true. Private companies must abide to government regulations, so they don’t get to make their own rules willy nilly, otherwise many of them would do really nasty stuff that harms people in the name of profits.

            Ever heard of powder milk companies adding cardboard to fornula to keep costs down? Companies dumping toxic shit in rivers? Companies paying militias to overthrow democratic governments so they can sell more bananas? Pharma companies jacking up prices to life saving drugs? They don’t have the right to do all this just because it’s in some internal employee handbook.

            But back to the original point, there have been cases in which company leaders making questionable decisions because they’re not right in the head. So I understand OPs sentiment.