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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
If you think that a pure profit motive, and a focus on legality (or paying the price of illegality) instead of moral rectitude, is evil, then every public corporation is evil. Every company that says "it's cheaper to pay the fines than obey the law" is evil. Every company that says "it's not illegal in that country, so we'll do it there" is evil. And, for that matter, every company that coldly, cynically advertises how their toothpaste will make sure you get laid is, again, evil. Maximizing profits is the whole point (and in fact the legal obligation) of a corporation. But Apple is no more or less evil than any of the rest of them, which neither the Apple lovers nor the Apple haters seem to get.
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And yet not all companies behave the same way, and there are ones that will repeatedly attempt to break or at least circumvent restrictions upon them, and ones that don't. 'Good' and 'evil' are not the right terms to use, but neither is it right to say that all companies act the same way.