On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Ben Bargabus wrote: > > Corporations have no morals. > I must have been in a crappy mood when I wrote this;) For anyone who cares I have the detailed version below... > > Corporations are not mythical beasts, they are simply the sum of all > their workers and stockholders. It's real easy to bash a faceless > company but try telling Fred from accounting that he's the devil because > of the way he interpreted our maze of financial laws. (sorry for the > off-topic rant but this climate of demonizing corporate America is > really starting to get on my nerves) > Later, > Ben (part of a corporation as a programmer and complete with morals). Individuals within companies may (and usually do) have morals, regardless of the type of company. However, in a corporation the more people there are, the more likely any one person's moral qualms about a given action will be overridden by a person or group that doesn't share the same moral code. Hence, sufficiently large corporations are apparently devoid of any particular moral code beyond the bottom line, and there is a continuum. -- Daniel Taylor dante at plethora.net