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There doesn't seem to be a term for harms and deaths due to corporate/market mechanisms, even though this is a very common and large phenomenon. Start with the toxic industries: tobacco, opioids, lead, etc. This indicates to me that there is a need for the term to bring an accounting for the millions hurt and killed, which exceed those of well-known genocides. This sounds like a good subject for a PhD thesis, to assemble together the diverse harms and see their true scope. | There doesn't seem to be a term for harms and deaths due to corporate/market mechanisms, even though this is a very common and large phenomenon. Start with the toxic industries: tobacco, opioids, lead, etc. This indicates to me that there is a need for the term to bring an accounting for the millions hurt and killed, which exceed those of well-known genocides. This sounds like a good subject for a PhD thesis, to assemble together the diverse harms and see their true scope. | ||
| − | Killing through markets, commerce, and other indirect and distributed methods. Voluntary participation by customers | + | Killing through markets, commerce, and other indirect and distributed methods is common in our society. Voluntary participation by customers does not exclude deaths or responsibility from this category. |
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| + | Included are: | ||
| + | * less formal entrepreneurial propaganda efforts such as anti-vax | ||
| + | * deaths due to sale of illegal and legal drugs where addiction plays a part | ||
| + | * deaths due to suppression of risk information | ||
| + | * deaths due to insufficient regulation (guns for example) | ||
| + | * deaths due to pollution | ||
| + | * deaths with distributed responsibility, as in corporations and criminal organizations | ||
I looked for this in Wikipedia, and they have a list of different types of homicide. None correspond to cases such as the Sackler's opioid deaths. Instead we use a passive term "epidemic" that doesn't implicate anyone, let alone corporations and their owners who are the direct cause. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_manslaughter Industrial manslaughter] approaches this idea, but is not nearly inclusive enough. | I looked for this in Wikipedia, and they have a list of different types of homicide. None correspond to cases such as the Sackler's opioid deaths. Instead we use a passive term "epidemic" that doesn't implicate anyone, let alone corporations and their owners who are the direct cause. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_manslaughter Industrial manslaughter] approaches this idea, but is not nearly inclusive enough. | ||
| − | Not having a term probably makes it much more difficult to legislate or prosecute. | + | Not having a term probably makes it much more difficult to legislate or prosecute these moral crimes. |
Possible names: mercaticide, mercatanoxa. | Possible names: mercaticide, mercatanoxa. | ||
