And the cigarette companies didn’t have to lie about their product; they chose to do it. If individuals are expected to bear the consequences for the choices they make, then corporations (and the people who run them) should bear the consequences for their choices, too. They lied; they bear some of the responsibility that people believed them.
So you’re saying that people these days are poorly built to handle the complexities of the real world and how to learn from it?
How did that arise?
Me, I blame trump.