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by toyg 2352 days ago
> And others might not have wanted to damage the company that employs them.

Paraphrasing a famous saying, it's hard to make somebody care about something if their livelihood depends on them not caring.

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Indeed. Another thing consider is if someone blows the whistle it could leave all of their coworkers without jobs. Men and women with families, mortgages, bills and lives. That is a lot of guilt and a very heavy decision to make, especially when there is no consequence in sight. Now that hundreds of people have died as a result that guilt has waned.