Companies like Eli Lilly, Merck, GSK, Bristol-Meyers Squibb cause and perpetuate massive amounts of human suffering. I view them on the same level as Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. Input?

  • Outdoor_Catgirl [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    Disagree. Pharma companies ultimately do something beneficial (make medicine) versus military companies that do something evil (make weapons for imperialism.) of course, their execs should be hanged for their capitalist exploitation all the same.

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      6 months ago

      I’m with you. Medicine is inherently good. Weapons are just neutral. Both are used by capital for nefarious means, both are weaponized to maintain white supremacy, both are tools of genocide. But the empire keeps going without Pfizer, it dies in 1 day without its ICBMs.