[WS:] Does not it lead to the conclusion that corporations and their bosses are uebermenschen operating largely above the law to which ordinary mortals are subjected - a position that I argued some time ago on this forum, to which you replied that contract law can provide sufficient remedies? How do you think justice should be served in cases like Bhopal or Deepwater Horizon? China uses death penalty in such cases, but we are all against death penalty, are we not?
Wojtek
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com>wrote:
> Michael Pollak writes:
>
> [ The interesting thing about this parallel is that of course
>>
>> most of us would normally never have thought about the victims
>> of the Exxon Valdez. The court system is kind of a legitimation
>> miracle that way: it makes every victim of an important corporate
>> crime isolated and forgotten, which is part of why the crimes
>> themselves vanish from the memory as if they'd been fixed. ]
>>
>
> In other news:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/world/asia/08bhopal.html
>
> 8 Former Executives Guilty in '84 Bhopal Chemical Leak
>
> NEW DELHI - More than 25 years after a plume of fatal toxic gas from an
> American-owned chemical plant wafted over the slumbering city of Bhopal,
> eight former executives of the company's Indian subsidiary - including one
> who has since died - were convicted Monday of negligence. The seven
> surviving defendants were sentenced to two years in prison and fined 100,000
> rupees, or $2,100.
>
> They were the first criminal convictions from the leak at the Union Carbide
> chemical plant in Bhopal, a central Indian city. The leak killed 3,000
> people almost instantly, and thousands more died later from the aftereffects
> of the toxic gas, an ingredient in pesticides the plant produced.
>
> [...]
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