Originally Posted by UncleDave
Originally Posted by Ws6
Originally Posted by UncleDave
Originally Posted by Trav
We are not on the same sheet of music. I was addressing the death toll numbers you posted which no one could ever prove one way or another that this or that was 100% the cause, if it fits the agenda of the day then it did.
My boss years ago died of lung cancer, they wrote lung cancer due to cigarette smoking as the cause. The problem is he never smoked, not one day on his life.
His family challenged it it but I have no idea what the outcome was. The point is, his death fit their agenda even if they get a few of the small facts wrong.
The other point is, laws were broken, crimes committed and all the rest of it but how much harm was really caused by it?
They don't know, you don't know and I don't know and never will, they are not even guessing just pulling numbers ginned up by someone else.. I suggest leaving this subject alone before the thread gets locked.
Trav - lets say we cant tell the exact scope of public harm.
11M vehicles with nox levels 10-40X the legal amount is a huge amount of pollution.
How about we not claim (or back the claim) VW didnt jeopardize public safety which they CLEARLY did.
Cadogans take is entertaining as is the trail of deception VW waged.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VZFP3lW4gU
McDonalds has done 1000x more to kill people. I mean, technically I can see where you're going with it, but really, it feels more like that millenial tweeting about the evils of Capitalism from their iPhone X, or the Boomer ranting about how they only buy American goods, *posted from Samsung Galaxy S9*, etc.
Mcdonalds management isnt in jail.
Cant you just concede your claim isnt accurate rather than misdirecting?
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The court system has very little to do with morality...
Now, what point, specifically, are you saying I'm wrong about? That I dont feel VW harmed consumers? I still dont feel they did, enough to raise my ire. I mean, we can argue that everyone harms people to a certain extent and just refuse to buy anything. I guess what I'm saying is sure, they produce emissions. Actually, Jeep, hyundai, and many others also were shown to be producing high levels of NOx...levels arbitrarily decided on by a court, not that others didnt also produce them, just that they crossed the magic threshold.