AND LAW DEMAND TRUTH – IT IS CUSTOMERS WE LIE TO (how very american a propositio

https://t.co/xvprbF3T3TPOLITICS AND LAW DEMAND TRUTH – IT IS CUSTOMERS WE LIE TO

(how very american a proposition)

The side effect of western commercial success, and in particular american commercial culture, is that we extend the lies we tell customers in pursuit of profit to lies about ethical reality.

re: Pew Research Center

1) The vast majority of the world holds many false beliefs. Truth offends popular sentiment – or we would not need utter it.

2) The secret of western rates of development is our discovery of objective truth, and institution of it throughout daily life.

3) One fears the opinion of customers from who one seeks to profit. Law and science seek only truthful testimony.

4) The ethical limit of profit is that in which one externalizes a cost of production. In other words, truth prevents political thefts.