"al Guacamole" <aet@lava.net> wrote in message
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>
> On May 25, 1:45 pm, "Jerry Okamura" <okamuraj...@hawaii.> wrote:
>> "al Guacamole" <a...@lava.net> wrote in message
>
>>> They can't lie to their shareholders-- which means essentially the
>>> general public for a publicly held corporation. You state that they
>>> can lie with impunity. Of course not.
>>
>> When did I say they can lie with impunity?
>
> I'll quote you on CEOs of US Corporations who presumably belong to
> responsible companies...
>
> "These CEO's of large companies are just human beings. They do not
> walk on water, or have some sort of crystal ball that tells guarnatees
> that they will be successful. And because they are human beings, some
> are honest and some are not honest. You cannot dream u way to prevent
> that from happening."
>
> Here you imply that they can get away with lying. That's not how the
> system is intended to work. It's a similar to you saying that
> criminals are "just human" and will break the law, and there's no way
> to "prevent" that. I point out that we "prevent" that by having
> deterrence. They screw up and in theory, the law says that they get
> punished.
>
I DID NOT SAY THEY THAT WOULD LIE. I said that being human, they will make
mistakes and like all human beings some will not tell the truth.