- If a woman is drunk and is raped she is responsible for inviting the rape.
- If a man is drunk and rapes he is not responsible for his actions!
- Discrimination is bad. Reverse discrimination is good.
- Discrimination is unfair. Reverse discrimination is unfair to others (but who don’t deserve fairness).
- Discernment is good, discrimination is bad.
- Being intelligent is good. To choose intelligent people is discrimination.
- If you are born intelligent it is luck and not to your credit.
- If you are born stupid it’s your parents’ fault.
- To judge people is wrong. Not to judge people is irresponsible.
- If you are having fun you are being irresponsible.
- The ability to discriminate is good, to discriminate is bad.
- If it’s in your genes it’s not your fault. All deviant behaviour is genetic. Ergo – it’s nobody’s fault
- The sins of the parents excuse any sins of the children.
- There is no God except mine and I am one of my God’s preferred people.
- MY God does not report to any superior God. Your God is therefore subordinate to my God.
- To kill for God is a good thing.
- Just as there is no sound when a tree falls and there is no brain to hear, cheating without being detected can not be cheating.
- What is true can be determined by a vote.
- Scientific truth is determined by a consensus.
- Results from expensive research are more true than results from inexpensive research.
- Biological gender difference can be eliminated by legislation.
- There are more than two genders.
- As long as I stick to to my constitution, my democracy allows that my majority can oppress your minority.
- Immigration from Africa to Europe is bad. European expatriates in Africa are good.
- I know best what is good for you.
- I also know best what is for the common good.
- If it tastes good it’s bad for you.
- Normality is a myth. If you think you are normal it’s a bad thing.
- Everybody is mentally sick (according to DSM 5)
- All mental illness can be treated by expensive medication.
Posts Tagged ‘double standards’
Strange are the ways of man
October 22, 2013Hausergate: When did Hauser start making it up?
August 30, 2010By all accounts Marc Hauser has been falsifying data at least since 1995.
Harvard probe kept under wraps
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100817/full/466908a.html
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All his work must now be suspect. From his PhD in 1987 from UCLA, and through to his post-doctoral “work” at Ann Arbor, Michigan, at the University of California, Davis and at Rockefeller University, and all his production at Harvard, the presumption must be of exaggerations (which is probably how it started) and falsification.
The magnitude of his fraud must encompass at least his salary and grants ever since he joined Harvard.
25 years on and toxicity is still being exported….
July 23, 201025 years after Bhopal where the manufacture of toxic products was “exported” to India the same “export” philosophy – this time with toxic wastes to the Ivory Coast – continues.
I thought I could see signs of ethics returning to the corporate world but I was being too optimistic. “Business as usual and pay a few fines if you get caught” seems to apply. Nobody goes to jail after all.
Trafigura found guilty of exporting toxic waste
A Dutch court has found multinational Trafigura guilty of illegally exporting toxic waste from Amsterdam and concealing the nature of the cargo.
In 2006, Trafigura transported waste alleged to have been involved in the injury of thousands of people in Ivory Coast. The firm was fined 1m euros (£836,894) for its ship, the Probo Koala, transiting Amsterdam with its cargo.Trafigura, an oil trading company, initially tried to clean up low-grade oil by tipping caustic soda into the hold of the Probo Koala. The company tried to unload the waste in Amsterdam for treatment, declaring it as “harmless slops”.
Timeline
Sept 2006 – Thousands in Ivory Coast report falling ill from waste in Abidjan
Oct 2006 – About 1,000 Ivorians sue Trafigura
Feb 2007 – Trafigura reaches $160m out-of-court settlement with government of Ivory Coast
Oct 2008 – Ivory Coast court finds two people, not employees of Trafigura, guilty of dumping toxic waste in Abidjan
Sept 2009 – Trafigura agrees to pay $50m to people in Ivory Coast who say they were poisoned by the waste
June 2010 – Dutch prosecutors accuse Trafigura of illegally exporting hazardous waste to Ivory Coast
Trafigura denies responsibility for the dumping of the waste and any deaths or injuries caused !!
Cartels and Hypocrisy. But what happened to ethics?
June 24, 2010Firms and private cartels get fined but when OPEC countries fix prices it’s OK and when the International Diamond Cartel operates it is found to be beneficial!!!
But ethics don’t get a mention.
EU fines bathroom cartel 622m euros
Seventeen bathroom equipment makers have been fined a total of 622m euros ($760; £510m) by the European Commission for price-fixing. The companies, including Ideal Standard of the US, which was fined 326m euros, formed a cartel for 12 years covering ceramics such as sinks, baths and taps.
The fines of five companies were reduced to a level they could afford. The Commission described the firms’ practices as “very serious infringements of the EU competition rules”.
However, it said its objective was not to force companies in difficulties out of business, and so reduced the fines on five companies. One, Masco of Italy, received full immunity as it was the first to provide information on the cartel.
Birds or People: Environmental Hypocrisy and Double Standards
June 11, 2010Bhopal vs. The Gulf of Mexico or Union Carbide vs. BP
The oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is creating hysterical headlines, slide show after slide show of birds in oily distress and diatribes against BP which can only be described as a witch-hunt. The hysteria is – quite naturally – mainly in the US and it seems to be compounded by the fact that BP is a non-US conglomerate.
I have no idea of how culpable or negligent BP employees were.
But I note the contrast with the apologist and protective attitudes taken in the US when Union Carbide – a US Corporation – outsourced its production of the highly toxic methyl isocyanate to Bhopal in India. The gas leak in 1985 has killed close to 25000 people.The U.S. Supreme Court on October 4th, 1993 declined to review a U.S. Appeals Court decision that reaffirmed that the victims of the Bhopal tragedy lacked legal standing to seek damages in the United States court system. In 2001, Dow Chemical acquired Union Carbide. This week, 25 years after the tragedy, the Indian courts sentenced eight Indian employees to 2 years imprisonment. None of the US executives of Union Carbide has been brought to trial let alone faced any sanctions.
But Bhopal is far away from the Gulf of Mexico and the beaches of Florida.
DOUBLE, DOUBLE, OILY TROUBLE
Government Doubles Earlier Gulf Flow Estimate, But Still Lowballing
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
The Bhopal tragedy 
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