[londons_explore]

In an exchange between a government and a company, it's all a matter of policy and law. "We can survive without it so give it to someone more in need" isn't the way it's done, nor should it be in a capitalist society.

[lostcolony]

You just made a very compelling argument for more socialism.

[Nasrudith]

Compelling to the right sets of prejudices who have their own telology with preordained conclusions but ultimately a minutae of the whole picture akin to hyperfocusing on the obscure set "deaths caused by wearing a seatbelt" vs the far larger set "deaths prevented by them".

It is more an arguement for doing your goddamned homework as a government. Companies are essentially a function to find corner cases within what is written or not written. That sort of "creativity" is what they do. Using it as an arguement against it is like saying we should never have kept and domesticated cats or dogs because they can't be trusted to not to grab the Thanksgiving turkey when your back is turned.