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white_wolf

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Sun May-08-11 11:26 PM
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Immoral or amoral?

In another thread a few posters said that corporations should not be trusted because they purse only profits and are amoral entities. I'm not sure I agree with that, if their goal is greed and profit, isn't greed considered an immoral trait and not merely a lack of morals? So are corporations amoral or immoral in your eyes?

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Brigid

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Sun May-08-11 11:30 PM
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1. Despite what the Supreme Court may say,

corporations are not people, and thus cannot be moral or immoral; they are amoral. However, the people who run them are a different story. The decisions they make about how to run their companies definitely have a moral dimension to them.

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applegrove

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Sun May-08-11 11:31 PM
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2. Some of them the one, some of them the other. Think Costco is amoral vs Koch Industries immoral.

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valerief

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Mon May-09-11 12:12 AM
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3. Congress is immoral. Congress writes the laws that let amoral inhuman

corporations rob Americans blind.

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JDPriestly

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Mon May-09-11 02:14 AM
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4. Some corporations are great.

A corporation is the name of a form of organization for a business entity, no more no less.

When we speak of "the corporations," we mean the megacorporations that are immoral. I have lots of friends with small businesses organized in the corporate form who are very careful and moral in the conduct of their businesses. Excessive greed is immoral, not amoral.

A CEO who earns 300 times the income of a Navy Seal is greedy and immoral.

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OneGrassRoot

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Mon May-09-11 02:45 AM
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5. Well said.

Especially, "A CEO who earns 300 times the income of a Navy Seal is greedy and immoral."

:thumbsup:

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MineralMan

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Mon May-09-11 08:54 AM
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6. Which corporations?

There are millions of them. Some are as small as a single person. Others operate as non-profit companies. I think you need to qualify your discussion a bit. Corporate structure is just a description of how a business or other organization is organized. A couple of my one-person companies were corporations. Trust me, there was no immoral activity going in either of them, and the CEO was far from rich.

Define your terms, please.

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white_wolf

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Mon May-09-11 01:23 PM
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7. To clarfiy when I say coroproatin

I'm talking about large muti-national(usually at least) corporations such as Koch industries, investment banks, Wal-mart, and the like.

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