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If I pay a killer to have someone killed, and he breaks the contract I can sue him?

This is turbo capitalism gone wrong. Unfortunately destroying the planet is only morally wrong, but not legally in many cases. It just tells me that I am right never buying any of Apple's products.

In France they intended to make it illegal to destroy new products. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/04/france-to-ban-... No idea whether that is still current, I am not from France.



> In France they intended to make it illegal to destroy new products. […] No idea whether that is still current, I am not from France.

It will be, for all products outside of food, starting in 2022.

https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2019/12/13/loi-antiga...


I'm pretty surprised considering what the fashion industry is to France.




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