And now they just never ever say anything like that anymore?

Indeed it would be, but it would not be taken seriously, unless it was someone smashing a urinal perhaps? I jest I jest. I would think that some of the more abhorrent emotions wouldn't be considered, but there is certainly lots of people who love having certain emotions stimulated, as evidenced by the commercial success of films like SAW.

"No one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy of comparison with the great dramatists, poets, filmmakers, novelists and composers." It seems to me that art is considered great based on the amount of emotional response it stirs up in the person interacting or observing whatever medium the art is based on. I would almost agree with the gentleman speaking, almost. There have been a few games that really get up into your soul, get under your skin and get your heart pounding. Thats as close as the industry really gets, except for System Shock 2. That game was a bonafide masterpiece of art. Maybe I'd even go so far as to say Gears of War 2 multiplayer can be some fantastic performance art, under certain situations, like when the last man standing on his team hunts down and chainsaws the remaining three men on the other team. If I've gone that far I'd have to include BF1942 as well, if there is two teams playing very seriously sitting back and watching is incredible. It's like a war movie. "Hero" the old movie filmed within the engine, theres a word for this, mechinama? mechina? something? was quite a good short film. Except that there are no lives on the line, almost no human interest sections, gears and bf1942 can be beautiful, and raise an emotional response like sports can. System Shock 2 is the only game to transcend the trappings of the industry. And it does it through the emotion of fear, which is kinda hilarious. my 2 cents.

Exactly that. Companies can break the law, and they are people now, so why don't they have corporate prison? Too big to fail just lines right up with corporate interests. We can do whatever we want, laws merely exist to keep the plebes away from guns so they can never stop us. And we're too big to fail so we'll get away with it.

Its exceedingly rare but there is still good in the world.

One of the most horrible truisms imaginable. Same with "the good die young" or "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

So what? Can the guy/guys/girls responsible? Badmouth them on google? That's fair punishment? How about an eye for a fucking eye. I'm curious, how can you think a life like that is worth allowing continuing to exist? And don't give me no yuppie Nuremburg bullshit about following orders. Like theres an email. "seek them out blah blah." emails have a from and a to field. Find from. Hang him. Find to. Hang him. Then, find everyone above from and to in the corporate hierarchy and hang them. Gross negligence causing physical harm = capital offense in my opinion. Or, if killings' too salty for you, well, corporations exist and are owned by people, and corporations are persons. Well that means slavery is still legal, seeing how one person owns another. So therefore people who commit physical harm against another should be commited to slavery, and owned by the victim. All the employees, everyone involved, they should forfeit there lives in the service of those whose lives they maliciously and knowingly destroyed. And if they run, then hang them.

Than advertise it as such. People love to take things that improve their life and kill them at the same time, look at cigarettes for example. If they just had the balls to tell the truth Vioxx would probably still be for sale and would probably be having ridiculous amazing sales.

a 21 year old on anti-arthritis medicine?

I'll hold the stick, you watch the carrot. Your obviously very, very, immeasurably good at concentrating on the flawed yet irrelevant instead of the completely rotten and horribly, terrifyingly relevant.

What about that? Who would have that authority at Merck? The CEO? The hit-list didn't just appear, it was a plan put into action. Who put it into action? Some one made a decision. The world needs to track down and execute the people who make these decisions.

I'm totally down for this. The world has gone global, time for revolution to go global I think. I'd say execute the top 25% of the following companies, for a start. Oil Tanker Manufacturers. Oil Producing Companies Automobile Manufacturers Large Bond Trading Firms