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Me too. I went a step further and showed my kids everything Sony has done. They probably dislike Sony more than they need to really. But if the general concept of "sociopathic corporation" needed a poster child to make the point, Sony volunteered and won the part.



Aren't all companies, if they do what they're supposed to do, sociopathic? And Sony, being a huge conglomerate, is statistically more likely to commit sociopathic acts because of its size?


Perhaps in theory. In practice, some companies manage to do less badly than others.

It's not necessarily even a contradiction, if your primary business is selling to consumers it's entirely reasonable that a company would want to keep a positive image going.

For a company that makes earth-moving equipment primarily purchased by strip mining operations, no one would question the business sense of them not donating a percentage of their profits to environmental protest organizations.

For a company that sells to some gamer demographic, perhaps it would be the better part of wisdom to, say, decline to antagonize the likes of Geohot and the noncommercial hackers, modders, and Linux users of their platform. (Never mind the legally questionable tactic of retroactively disabling previously advertised and purchased functionality).




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