[matrix_overload]

They did it because of the cesspit environment inside every American corporation. If the CEO doesn't cave in under sufficient pressure, his internal political rivals will extend the guilt of association to him personally, and he will lose his position.

This is a modern-day equivalent of lynch mobs that has nothing to do with reason, good intentions or due process.

[femiagbabiaka]

Lynch mobs would kill people you know. They’d hang them from a tree or worse. This isn’t equivalent to that at all.

[matrix_overload]

Equivalent power structure/motivation of individual members. Agreeably less violent methods. Still not something I would call a civilized behavior.