On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 28, 2014 7:29 UTC (Tue) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: On the sickness of our community by rahulsundaram
Parent article: On the sickness of our community

as I said, in the real world organizations do many things, some of which you like, some of which you may object to. Just because a company does something that you object to doesn't mean that you should have no dealings or investments with the company, you need to decide if the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.

And even if they don't, and you do decide to stop investing in that company, it's not something to implement quickly. If you have a large investment and announce that you are not going to do business with them and sell off your interest in them, you will loose your shirt as people pay you less than the stock is worth as you sell rapidly. So the right thing to do for your investors (the retirement account) is to do nothing in the short term, and in the longer term shift your money gradually away.

the world is not black-and-white.

All that being said, I haven't followed the details of this case, so I don't know much about it. But then again, nobody outside of that company really knows what their criteria is either. You may very well be misunderstanding their criteria when you declare that they are being hypcritical. Their lawsuit wasn't to have them stop paying for all forms of birth control, only about 4 out of 50.

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On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 28, 2014 10:59 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

That's a bunch of flimsy excuses. They went to court claiming that plan b and iud were equivalent to abortion and by any definition most of them that they refused to cover are not. They were also caught investing in the same type of companies doing exclusively the things they claimed they were against. When asked about it they did nothing. Some women cannot use other forms of birth control and they are copaying for premium for health insurance to get the best they can. By being ignorant and hypocritical they have outed themselves.