Disney is a business, the law is expected to prevent them from behaving like psychopaths. Because (almost) every company will when there is enough money on the line.
The real problem here is that law makers don’t prevent these nefarious contracts, where people sign away basic rights. These contracts are illegal and void in most countries that have better laws/regulation.
Much is periodically made of public mental health issues, most often depression. But far and away the most significant mental health issue humanity faces, and quite likely the most significant issue, period, is psychopaths in positions of power.
This is true, Disney is a company, and the way our system is set up, their job is to make as much money as possible.
To do that, companies often behave like psychopaths. They care more about money than people and morality.
I was only mentioning it because to improve conditions we need to blame lawmakers as much as Disney for allowing this.
Oh yeah - I get your point, and agree as far as that goes.
I just think that a system that has to actually have laws in place to limit the abuses carried out by psychopaths in positions of power is self-evidently a failure. A society should have standards in place that either prevent psychopaths from gaining power or strip them of their power should they gain it.
The world as a whole is not insane. Insanity is concentrated among those in positions of power. And we ignore it. We spend so much time and energy arguning back and forth about policy and ideology, and treating things as givens so all we can do is choose the next step in a series of events, when the reality is that the entire situation exists solely because the people with decision-making authority have led us to this situation, and that because they’re deeply mentally ill.
I think we should be calling out the mental illness - putting the spotlight on that.
So, for instance, any executive who would sign off on Disney trying to dodge responsibility for a death their negligence obviously caused is self-evidently mentally ill. It can only be the case that they have a lack of empathy, compassion and remorse that is pathological and therefore shouldn’t even be allowed to hold a position of public responsibility.
That’s the way I see it. It just makes no sense at all, as a society, to allow people who are demonstrably willing to act in ways that cause suffering to have access to power over others. They should be removed from influential positions, and potentially removed from society as a whole, and should be under the care of mental health professionals rather than running loose, warping society to accommodate their own mental illness.
prevent psychopaths from gaining power or strip them of their power should they gain it.
That would be nice, but I doubt it’s possible. Most psychopaths actually stay within the rules though, because they figure out it’s best for them socially.
Florida is one power outrage away from having mass deaths. Even the people here don’t realize that their air conditioning has become a life support system.
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The banner stunt came shortly after Truss voiced her support for Elon Musk, who has claimed the UK has a two-tier policing system. She said on X: “I am appalled by the attacks on free speech in Britain and Europe. We can’t be truly free without free speech. Good for Elon Musk and X for standing up to these bullies.” Musk responded, thanking her for support.
Amazing how someone can be so right but twisted 180 degrees!
Like the US, the UK DOES have a two-tier policing system: the far right riot in the streets of most if not all major cities in England (based on an Islamophobic RUMOR) and get coddled, while the left are brutalized by cops at peaceful protests (against racial discrimination and corporations hastening the demise of the human race) if they even manage to avoid being THROWN IN JAIL FOR SEVERAL YEARS FOR PLANNING A PEACEFUL PROTEST!
It’s amazing how the privileged bullies can just pretend that the opposite of reality is true and gain support for it!
Yeah, I guess they forgot to appoint a Christian King.
Those accounts provide about $6,600 per student to attend any school, including private or home schools
This “act” is all about funneling public tax money into the pockets of religious grifters, and hell, it sounds like you don’t even need to be an organized business grifter any more. You can just open your house/trailer/shack for a few hours a day as a “home school”, do a little praying at minimum, and collect $6600/head/yr. Sweet deal. But it’s not welfare. Nope, not at all, not if you’re a Christian taking the grift.
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