Egbert Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 So a British company is exporting lethal drugs to American states where the death penalty is still used. Anyone see anything wrong in it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 Nope.....pity we can't use some over here on our murderers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Kije Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 Its wrong, Also the export of equipment used for torture is wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 And I bet you think we shouldn't manufacture arms as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Kije Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 Yes we should manufacture arms, To be sold for the legitimate defense of a country, but we should not sell to countries that use them to oppress their own population. Common sense Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 Well, if "oppression" of one's own population is the criteria, I would imagine that would impose severe limitations on our exports?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Kije Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 Yep As it should Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 Thus making even more N/West employees redundant at BAE systems et al - who all have a vote! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Kije Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 Apparently we are supposed to look who are buying the arms before we sell, with exception to Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Middle East, come to think of it everybody. Just look at the size of the Cheque Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverlady54 Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 The question is an ethical one. It isn't wrong to export goods to another country legally, it's business. Whether it should be questioned on the ethical front is for the company to decide. If it is a company that would suffer if enough individuals stopped using them then pressure could be applied, but in the case of a drugs company I don't see how that could work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Kije Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 I don't know many companies that would put ethics in front of profit, What ever would the share holders say Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverlady54 Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 Exactly, profit comes first and in the current economic climate any business is better then no business! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 Not sure SL, that it is a practical proposition in buisiness to impose "ethical" restrictions; profit is the sole motivation. You'll recall, that "new" Labour were going to practise an "ethical" foreign policy - which for some reason faded into obscurity - maybe they looked at the effect on our balance of payments?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverlady54 Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 I didn't say it was, Obs, I was just making a statement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 .. and I was merely suggesting the cynical realities of the world we live in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Kije Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 So Silver Lady, you would be quite happy to sell arms to anybody, Just look what happened to the Americans, who quite happly sold weapons into Afganistan, Their are now American and British Soldiers dieing with the arms the Americans sold to Mr Bin Laden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 Yes - but Bin Laden was an ally of the US at the time, fighting the Soviet occupation - weapons often last longer than alliances! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Kije Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 The UK is skint, why not sell a nuclear Missle to Iran, profit before ethics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 But self preservation trumps both of them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Kije Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 If we only sold them one, it would be Israel that got it. so happy days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 Well, didn't the Yanks give that technology to Israel in the first place? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Kije Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 Yep, Just think we sold a missle to Iran there would be no more Middle East, We could walk in and take the radio active oil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 Many a true word (or prediction) is spoken in jest! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 Didn't our lovely French Allies sell exocet missiles to the Argies who used them to kill British sailors in the Falklands war? The Frogs were our allies then and supposedly still are.... but would you trust them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Kije Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 No They sold them 3 long before the war, they had 7 more on order, But are French allies refused to sell them when war broke out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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