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Do you think the PR person responding here feels, underneath it all, the inhumanity of their responses? The fact that they're merely wasting everyone's time with their prevaricated non-answers? Knowing what they need to say to keep their job but hurting internally at the stupidity of it all.

Or do they end up so enmeshed with the corporate machine that that they start to really believe it all makes sense?

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I think - at least for the people who stick with a career in PR - that they enjoy playing the game of giving an answer that is sort of related to the question but doesn't actually give a single bit of useful information. That they enjoy seeing how far they can push it without the interviewer straight up accuse them of not answering the question.

At least that's the only way I can imagine them keeping their sanity.

It's in their job description, they're most likely very proud of how their words can swindle the majority. They're greasy and they love it.

I think HN skews towards a somewhat naive but good natured crowd. Every time ethics or morality comes up on here there is no shortage of defenders that simply don't want to accept the fact. Yes there are bad people out there that are not only ok with the bad things they do but even some that actively enjoy it and pursue more of it.

Well, I'll admit that I hadn't even really thought of the option where they know it's evil but they just enjoy it until these responses. I figured they'd either hate their job or have convinced themselves that they're actually doing good. To be fair I think a lot of outwardly-evil people have convinced themselves internally that they're good people.

The question isn't whether there are bad people who enjoy what they do but whether they recognize that what they are doing is bad rather than deluding themselves in some way.

The whole point of ethics is to have an independent roadmap of what is right/good/moral other than just your subjective feelings that may change even from day to day.

Again you are reinforcing my point. I've directly meet people that have said things like this real life Exec quote.

"I love bopping them, just like turtles when they pop their head up for air, bop" *gestured fist hammer motion

In regard to treating people like disposable slaves in order to get what they want.

Stop anthropomorphizing Microsoft PR speakers.

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