Official Wii Thread

**Some Stupid Japanese Name** · 17 Aug 2012, 08:45 PM

How can a consumer educate themselves if a company is allowed to hide all the shit it's doing? If you buy something from some company on the Mississippi river, are you going to fly there first to make sure it's not dumping into the water?
Nothing in life is all or nothing. There's balance and moderation needed for everything. How can you be an adult and not see that? People are greedy and self centered and will do whatever they want as long as they think no one is looking.

**Rumpy** · 17 Aug 2012, 08:51 PM

Didn't the 2000 documentary "Erin Brockovich" cover all this?

**Yoshi** · 17 Aug 2012, 08:51 PM

Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name

How can a consumer educate themselves if a company is allowed to hide all the shit it's doing? If you buy something from some company on the Mississippi river, are you going to fly there first to make sure it's not dumping into the water?

The original article that started this discussion is an example of consumers finding out what companies are doing without any government getting in the way.

Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name

Nothing in life is all or nothing. There's balance and moderation needed for everything. How can you be an adult and not see that?

Is your story this?

People are greedy and self centered and will do whatever they want as long as they think no one is looking.

Or this?

edit: For the record, I am not in favor of wiping out all regulation, but we have way more than we should. And when you think about how paid for most of Washington probably is, God knows who wrote the regulations that are there.

**Some Stupid Japanese Name** · 17 Aug 2012, 09:04 PM

Those arent seperate stories. Balance and moderation are needed. An entity left to its own devices will adhere to neither.

**Diff-chan** · 17 Aug 2012, 10:06 PM

Originally Posted by Yoshi

I would never buy a product from a company I knew was dumping shit in a river.

I guarantee you that you have. Market forces don't work in situations like this - that's the whole point. In fact, they encourage it.

**James** · 17 Aug 2012, 10:35 PM

Regulations are good to a point. Anyone who says otherwise is retarded. The only argument is over where the point regulations become unnecessarily restrictive is.

James