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Certainly - because you're an independent and autonomous individual, and that's why your personal and unique choice of "Coca Cola", which was not at all engineered by corporate marketing.

Assuming you're in the US - at least try one of these regional drinks (simple search here - I'm no expert):

https://www.tasteofhome.com/collection/best-regional-sodas/


I think coke tastes good


Why did you try it in the first place?


I guess because my parents gave it to me


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I mean, it seems likely to me that every global mega-corporation has probably employed a murderer at some point in time. It's just a numbers game.

If the board has a meeting and decides to murder someone, that's a problem. If some random employee decides to murder someone, it's probably not the company's fault.


1. This sounds like the "but every large world state has committed some form of ethnic cleansing or genocide, so XYZ" type argument. Perhaps that's true; and it's certainly true indirectly, in the sense that wars and killings and executions benefit dominant economic entities. But the conclusion isn't to to just ho-hum excuse it.

2. I suspect most regional soft drink makers don't kill people. So, let's buy their stuff.

3. Of course the board won't take that decision. That's what unofficial fixer positions at contractors are for. Or - the decision is taken independently by a Barney-Stinson-type manager:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94PHjdjzvrs

"Provide Legal Exculpation and Sign Everything"




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