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They conducted en masse poisoning of the global population. For what benefit? Non-stick surfaces?

How were they supposed to know? How about the deformities in animals around their factory runoff? How about studies prior to mass production?

Frankly we should be considering life imprisonment for the executives, regulatory attorneys, and chief engineers, and the corporate death penalty for the company.

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What is wierd is that this also affects the people doing the polluting and their offspring, honestly that is more satisfying than jail time.

Perhaps the situation merits a lot of righteous wrath, but let's not wish the visitation of the sins of parents on their children. Maybe they grow up to do more of the same, or maybe they're part of the solution. Let their own actions speak for themselves.

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