毒+NPO＝企業の社会的責任？
Posted on December 15, 2007
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Niccolo Machiavelli penned his famous novel ‘The Prince’ in 1513, though is was not published till after his death. In it, he popularized the term "The Ends Justifies the Means". Of course it was Stalin that brought the phrase to the masses but the message was the same and today that concept remains one of the deepest and insidious cancers that plague our ailing societies. There comes a time when men must stand for right and throw off the things that destroy our families and ultimately societies. And this notion that wrong for the right reason is good is something that good people must recognize and resist. Even charities and the people that direct them.
Right now, companies are clamoring to join the "corporate social responsibility" bandwagon in order to polish up their images and cover their warts in hope of increasing profits. Make no mistake, tobacco companies do not sponsor marathons because they want to promote athleticism. They do so to associate themselves with health and welfare. To earn goodwill that may translate into grace as responsible law makers act to curb the biggest merchants of death on the planet. Let us not forget that tobacco kills 2.5 MILLION people annually. As America has increased legislation to make the tobacco companies take responsibility for their actions, they have set their sights on enslaving the youth of Asia.
How ironic is was that I was helping a major charity, a food bank out of Tokyo who’s name will go unmentioned, when I saw the フィリップ モリス インターナショナル（ＰＭＩ) emblem centrally promoted on their delivery van. Let’s stop a minute and think for that charity as they seem to have let money dictate their morals. A tobacco company helping to feed the hungry of Asia just to increase their target market share is not ‘corporate social responsibility’, it is ‘corporate greed’. Rather than proudly advertise death merchants, they should be ashamed enough to refuse the bribe. Imagine the scandal if a preacher who feeds and clothes the poor offers a policeman 50 bucks to "forget" he was speeding…
All NGO’s and NPO’s that provide needed social services need funding to provide those services. But to take "blood" money and validate companies that do horrible things does not make society better. Their energies would profit society more by taking a moral stand and educating the public on the needs for their services. In this case, the little good that the food bank in Tokyo does pales in comparison to the slaughter brought on by PMI and the similar donors that fund them. Let me once again remind us that aprox. 2.5 million people every year die from tobacco and PMI has approximately 1/2 of the U.S. market.
Kozmoz International receives no funding from such companies, does not solicit corporate funding and will not accept such funding. 100% of our funding comes from fees from educational programs that enrich our societies.
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