Diethylene glycol in Panamanian toothpaste

I just find it incomprehensible that people care so little, that they would happily risk the lives of others, for a few dollars. At least, it was apparently listed as an ingredient, on the toothpaste, rather than being suruptitiously slipped in, as it was in the cough syrup. But I still can't understand how people that do this sort of thing can sleep at night. I can only assume that they are absolute sociopaths.

It reminds me of having a business lunch I had with a contractor that my old company did a lot of work for, several years ago. I was running the job and there were some quirks that needed to be worked out (I was a roofer). We got our business settled and were just finishing our lunches with some casual b.s. when we overheard a contractor at another table complaining about his liability rates going up again. The contractor I was dealing with jumped in with the comment that he had high hopes that our new president would "do something about that and hopefully gut OSHA along the way." After I responded that I would prefer not to see a return to the days when construction jobs were, in part, measured in fatal accidents, he responded, "it would certainly help open up the job market." It is a measure of how good the company that I worked for is, that he still tried to hire us for more jobs, even after I went balistic on him. It's a measure of my bosses ethics, that after we had cleared the current contracts with him, we never set foot on another one of his jobs.

Maybe I am hopelessly naive, but I just can't comprehend putting profits - small ones at that - over human lives.