why though? it's people that fire the guns. there will always be someone out there with a sharper stick. i mean this is literally where the term "arms race" comes from..!

> Have you stopped using Google yet? Because they are the Lockheed Martin of the 21st century.

do google do bad things? yes. but comparing them to Lockheed Martin? either you vastly underestimate the terrible things that company has done, or you really dislike google..! (or i'm woefully ignorant of google's inhumane actions)

> I agree with you that corporations are psychopathic.

no, they are not psychopathic. psychopathy implies that idea of empathy existed to begin with.

> But to suggest that fact abdicates us from all responsibility of trying to return agency to the individual is foolish.

no, absolutely not. the problem is in the formulation of the system. there is an incentive to break the rules (more reward). because there is an incentive, some individuals will attempt to break the rules. and corporations almost always get away with it.

replace corporations with gangs, and you have the problem with the war on drugs in a nutshell.

> We have the power to say no.

and yet, unfortunately, we exercise the power of apathy almost exclusively. all of our personal data on facebook is sold to advertisers, sold to whoever wants to buy it. we could just not use facebook.

> Recognizing the evil that is conducted isn't cowardly.

oh i whole heartedly recognise it.

> But refusing to do anything because "That's just the way things are" is.

that is entirely not what i'm saying. i'm saying we need to stop immoral behaviour when it is happening. we can't define morals in law, and the law is the only thing corporations understand. we can't change laws and retroactively apply them.