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Originally Posted by AdultSoftwareSolutions
The real issue is corruption. It's not that corporations are bad and evil, it is that we have the occasional evil and corrupt person in power of those corporations. A knife is not good or bad, it is in how it is used.
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that's actually an interesting line of thought for discussion.
no, it's not that corporations are "evil".
but, you can argue that they are inherently a-moral entities that act like a super-human, with the legal rights of a human, but none of the legal responsibilities of a human.
these characteristics create a virus-like psuedo-entity that always tries to take the resources of ordinary humans, with real legal responsibilities and liability for their actions, and co-opt those resources for it's non-conscious purposes.
that's why corporations, especially the large multi-national corporations, have become a threat to democracy.
not because they are evil, but because they are a-moral super-persons without legal responsibility.