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On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:23:09 -0000, Hand-of-Omega
<handofomega@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote to rec.arts.anime.misc:
>I was just rewatching a little Bubblegum Crisis, and that question
>just hit me. Suppose that Ford Automotive put out cars that
>*regularly* went on homicidal rampages, indiscriminately slaughtering
>anyone they came across...It gets so bad that the police are helpless
>and a private group of vigilantes have to go around smashing up cars
>just to make the streets safe! Ford might actually have to face some
>negative consequences from that, right? And yet Genom...just keeps
>putting the damn things out! And, worse, people and companies keep
>buying them! Doesn't Genom have a Quality Control Division? Who do
>these guys answer to? Does no one police the business world in the
>future?? Is their PR department just that good? They can't be paying
>off ALL the families who lose loved ones and property to these
>things...Is it ever revealed what makes them go berserk, anyway?
>
>Common sense would tell you to pull them off the market till you can
>fix the problem, but nooo...
>
>Dex^_^
First off, Genom doesn't only make robots. Roughly three out of four
cars on their world's streets are Genom-made, for instance.
Second, they're rich and powerful enough to have "bought" enough
politicians that they can avoid scrutiny. (Note Leon's repeated
complaints about not being allowed to investigate Genom...)
Third, and most importantly, they're the Bad Guys in a Good Guys vs. Bad
Guys show. Nothing's going to inconvenience them except for the Good
Guys - it's genre convention. <g>
(As for what makes Boomers go beserk, sometimes it's on purpose. See
OAV 3 for one example...)
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Rob Kelk <http://robkelk.ottawa-anime.org/>
e-mail: s/deadspam/gmail/
"I'm *not* a kid! Nyyyeaaah!" - Skuld (in "Oh My Goddess!" OAV #3)
"When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear
of childishness and the desire to be very grown-up." - C.S. Lewis
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