19 March 2006, 2:07 PM
Also I think you have to consider whether a corporation is really "evil" by overthrowing certain governments, advancing the political careers of certain other individuals, etc... After all the fact that there's a system in place to allow them to do such a thing means that you can't lay all of the blame on such a corporation for using existing channels to further their own agenda.
Anyways, I suppose we have to define what evil is, and I guess if we use the general definition of "morally reprehensible" given by merriam-webster (it's a terrible definition -- great...morally reprehensible -- but it will have to do) then we can consider that Genom (in 2040 at least) didn't do anything terribly evil at all. They provided a necessary, and incredibly valuable service, supplied funding for a police force that handled the mishaps related to their particular goods, and sought to expand as all corporations do, but always with the consumer in mind. True, mason was genocidal, and probably a sociopath, but even he did what was morally correct in his mind, which is to say removing a major roadblock (mankind, in this case) in the service of future progress and evolution
Anyways, I suppose we have to define what evil is, and I guess if we use the general definition of "morally reprehensible" given by merriam-webster (it's a terrible definition -- great...morally reprehensible -- but it will have to do) then we can consider that Genom (in 2040 at least) didn't do anything terribly evil at all. They provided a necessary, and incredibly valuable service, supplied funding for a police force that handled the mishaps related to their particular goods, and sought to expand as all corporations do, but always with the consumer in mind. True, mason was genocidal, and probably a sociopath, but even he did what was morally correct in his mind, which is to say removing a major roadblock (mankind, in this case) in the service of future progress and evolution