Re: Church of England Starts to Boycott Israel - VICTORY !

On 20 Feb 2006 17:31:02 +0000, Gareth McCaughan put finger to keyboard
and typed:

Tony Bryer wrote:

But unless I've misunderstood the story Caterpillar didn't bulldoze
the homes; they made and sold the machines which others used for
that purpose. The implication is that Caterpillar should be vetting
their customers and deciding whether they are 'ethical' or
otherwise. This is nonsensical in that (a) if you know you'll fail
the test you just go and buy a secondhand one; and (b) following
this principle PC World should be asking computer buyers to confirm
that they won't be using their new computer to access porn sites.

I agree that it's nonsensical to boycott a company just because
its products are used for a bad purpose. I don't know anything
like enough about this particular story to know whether there's
more to it than that. (For instance: perhaps they gave the Israeli
government, or some such entity, a special deal, in the full knowledge
that those cheap bulldozers were going to be used for bulldozing
people's homes; that might be a bit different. But I have no reason
to think anything like that is actually true.)

Caterpillar explicitly denies that this is the case. The company story
is that they sold them to the US military, who then sold them on.

Mark
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