[HN Gopher] As opioid epidemic raged, drug company executives ma...
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       As opioid epidemic raged, drug company executives made fun of West
       Virginians
        
       Author : AndrewBissell
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2021-05-14 20:22 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | js2 wrote:
       | I don't know how anyone could be so callous. Making a profit over
       | other people's misfortune isn't enough. You have to make fun of
       | them too?
        
       | meristohm wrote:
       | > He said the documents were cherry-picked out of context and
       | defended the corporate culture at AmerisourceBergen, one of the
       | three opioid distributors on trial in Charleston, and said it was
       | of the "highest caliber." -AmerisourceBergen executive Chris
       | Zimmerman
       | 
       | Wordplay and making up new lyrics to old melodies is fun (keep up
       | the good work, Misbehavin' Maidens [generally NSFW]), but doing
       | it about a group one is not part of is risky, and might be mean,
       | callous, ignorant, exploitative, etc.
       | 
       | > "We're a company, we're not an enforcement agency and we're not
       | a regulatory agency," Zimmerman said
       | 
       | Reminds me of "ExxonMobile wants you to take responsibility for
       | climate change, study says".[0] Why should ExxonMobile executives
       | care about the rate and manner of petroleum resource-conversion?
       | Do they and their families and friends, and all the other
       | entangled life, live on this planet? Have their geologists
       | collected data that might be useful?
       | 
       | [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27158321
        
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