Is a pharmaceutical company who pollutes a river with chemicals obojective?

[nicholasair]

Environmentalists made an accusation about these companies polluting water ways. Do most companies pollute water ways?

[Philip Coates]

If by pollution, you mean causing demonstrable harm (disease, killing off fisheries, tar that sticks to you when you swim, causing cancer), then it is an initiation of force according to Objectivism.

And the law must step in and shut them down.

My sense is that the environmental laws already do this, so companies don't pollute streams, but the environmental laws go much further and shut down things which aren't causing harm.

The above is the moral principle. If you want to know more about concrete issues and applications and "cases", there is TONS of literature on environmental 'overkill' put out by Reason Mag, CATO Institute, etc.

[Selene]

Nicholasair:

When you look them dead in the eyes and ask?

Really, which company?

They answer how?

Adam