Ming: Klytus, I'm bored. What plaything can you offer me today?
Klytus: An obscure body in the S-K system. The inhabitants refer to it as the planet...Earth.
Ming: How peaceful it looks...[Causes an earthquake.]
Klytus: Most effective, Your Majesty. Will you destroy this...ah...Earth?
Ming: Later. I like to play with things a while, before annihilation. - Flash Gordon (1980)
And yes, of course I think it’s a bad decision – mostly because I’m very much in favour of greater restrictions on corporate rights rather than less, because they are imaginary people, and imaginary people do not, as a rule, have moral character which informs their action.