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View Poll Results: Is it our fault the climate is changing?
No - it's a natural course of events 6 15.79%
Yes - it's all our fault 7 18.42%
We're partially responsible, but it's natural anyway 13 34.21%
We're making it happen quicker 7 18.42%
There's not enough evidence either way to tell 5 13.16%
I can't make up my mind 0 0%
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Old 05-12-2009, 11:41 AM   #26
classicman
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Of course we can teach ethics, and should.
Who defines what is ethical?

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yea, and if we PUNISH them for NOT doing the right thing. And if a company is fined for something, they should NOT be allowed to farm off that expense to their customers, which is what most companies do.
How would you regulate that and who are you proposing should be in charge of that oversite?

It's the same thing with increasing business taxes. They are a cost of producing a product or service and that gets added into the cost the end user pays.
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