Thread:NerdWithAKeyboard/@comment-366087-20161229131147


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 * The company employs Faunus slave labor, has shady buisness practices and partners, and has severely damaged its environment. It's guards and employees also sere as antagonists to the main charaters.


 * You REALLY don't like me, do you, Robin? NerdWithAKeyboard (talk) 04:08, December 28, 2016 (UTC)


 * Actually, I don't really look at who edits a page when I come across it. So the fact the recent proposed deletions are pages you made are happenstance. I'm not targeting you. At most, it just calls into question your understanding of the Villains Wiki:Rules and what qualifies as Wicked, Evil, and Villainous.


 * As for the SDC, no matter what its past practices pertaining to Faunus Labor might have been, it can no longer be said to engage in "Faunus Slave Labor" as worldwide since the Great War the Faunus are recognized as Free Beings. So no slave labor. Not as a Company-wide Open Policy. Which does not mean that the Labor Conditions of the Faunus might not be unequal and less than tolerable, or that sweeping policy reforms are not called for…but that just places them at odds with the Faunus in Labor Disputes.


 * For an organization to be considered as Criminal, Wicked, Evil, etc, the entire organization must be inherently so and not simply due to the actions of its leadership. --Love Robin (talk) 22:30, December 28, 2016 (UTC)


 * Right. That's the issue. Faunus are free now, but thery're still treated as slaves by the SDC. They're also confirmed to be pesently partaking in illegial buisness deals (though, to be fair, it isn't explained what exactly they were, only that they were illegal), and have bio-engineered Grimm and helped engineer robots that aided in the attack on Beacon. They're also guilty of large-scale environmental destruction. Because of the leaders, the entie company has ended up corrupt and most (if not all) of its members besides Weiss are criminals in some form or another. But, it dosn't matter how much I defend and justify it. You'll just delete it anyway. NerdWithAKeyboard (talk) 22:55, December 28, 2016 (UTC)

Your last paragraph is full of what Wikipedia calls Original Research. Conclusions reached but not fully supported by the source material. In addition, care must be taken to examine the quality of the source cited. For example, a character's statement does not always carry the same weight as what is seen. A character may speak in hyperboles, from a bias, and may even simply be wrong in what they know. So for Blake to say that the SDC engages in certain business practices is suspect until the show SHOWS us that what she says is true. Blake may have spoken what she knew in a calm and dispationate fashion, but until we see it in the show it remains only what SHE knows, or thinks she knows. Even the Black Trailer is slanted from the POV of Adam's agendas.
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And fact is, Blake is more disillusioned with her own former factions than that of the Schnees, as her friendship with Weiss even before their argument in the last part of V.1 came to a head.

We have yet to see the "illegal business practices", or any employees acting in criminal fashion much less a majority of them. The mechs provided to the White Fang by Roman Torchwick were produced by Atlas Military with the cooperation of the Schnee Dust Company, which in and of itself is not enough to say the SDC was doing anything criminal. After all, it only makes sense that Atlas would seek an arrangement with "the largest dust provider in Remnant".

Sure someone in the SDC might have diverted shipments of the Paladin Mecha to Roman Torchwick (or Cinder, or Salem) to then give to the White Fang, but IF that does prove to be true, it was done secretly, by a faction within the company rather than the company itself. Else why would Roman and the Fang need to try to steal entire shipping containers of Dust in the V.1 finale?

MAYBE the SDC will prove to be Inherently Evil, but at this time there is not enough to say they are.

Frankly, there is not yet enough to say that Weiss' father and brother are Wicked doing Evil. Antagonistic and Jerkasses galore, yes, but the jury is still deliberating on their villainy. Events need to unfold more before we can say. 