[G Larry]

Good grief, is a hammer a good tool or an evil tool?

IT DEPENDS ON WHETHER ITS AIMED AT A NAIL OR YOUR HEAD!!!

Doesn’t make Stanley Tools “evil”.....

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IT DEPENDS ON WHETHER ITS AIMED AT A NAIL OR YOUR HEAD!!!

Doesn’t make Stanley Tools “evil”.....

You'll note that hammers are designed for a job, the shape of the head, the weight, the balance, is the face slightly domed to drive a sinker nail straight? Or is it checked to not slip on a roofing nails? Does it have a curved claw to pull nails? Or a straighter claw for ripping open boxes and pallets? Or does hit have a ball peen for shaping metal?

Or is it deliberately optimized to spike through a baby's skull and pulp her widdle brains?

If Stanley diligently worked with Hannibal Lecter at great effort and expense to design and build the later, one could argue that Stanley is evil, couldn't one?

[Dysart]

Good grief, is a hammer a good tool or an evil tool?

Not sure about that analogy. Here, I think, documented favor-trading for the ultimate goal to advance each concern's respective interests(namely profit and power/control), and arguably, as a consequence to the great detriment of society involves in this case a moral hazard and implies evil.