Some memories that you'd rather let just fade away, remain vivid as if they were yesterday;
While others that you want to hold forever, seem to fade much too quickly.
How obnoxiously frustrating!
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
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Conserva-pedia
http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_PageA disturbing web-site, reminding us all of the still present and horrifying prospect of a society that turns away from truth and science and towards the kind of rigid, closed-minded belief structure that leads unavoidably towards dogma supported persecution and murder of dissenters and non-believers.
From Wikipedia...
Regardless of one's definition, applying the word evil to a business or corporation seems to me to be at the very least, an attempt to apply a sense of moral obligation to something that is intrinsically amoral. Not immoral, but without-morality. This morality-assignment, is therefore forced and unnatural, and will ultimately be unsuccessful.
So I say, get over the noise that corporations are behaving against human morality. It's a red-herring that distracts from getting a "fix" in place. Accept the intrinsic amorality of corporations, and focus instead on getting that which is moral, the human constructs of government, to establish constraints (unnatural to the corporation) on the corporation. Make laws and enforce them. Don't chase the utterly toothless argument that corporations are immoral bastards who "should do better".
Today, many philosophers limit evil to acts that intentionally cause harm.This is rather the definition I generally apply to the word. However there are, it turns out, many definitions to the word 'evil', and it is therefore pretty darned difficult to hold a conversation on the good/evil nature of a "corporation".
Regardless of one's definition, applying the word evil to a business or corporation seems to me to be at the very least, an attempt to apply a sense of moral obligation to something that is intrinsically amoral. Not immoral, but without-morality. This morality-assignment, is therefore forced and unnatural, and will ultimately be unsuccessful.
So I say, get over the noise that corporations are behaving against human morality. It's a red-herring that distracts from getting a "fix" in place. Accept the intrinsic amorality of corporations, and focus instead on getting that which is moral, the human constructs of government, to establish constraints (unnatural to the corporation) on the corporation. Make laws and enforce them. Don't chase the utterly toothless argument that corporations are immoral bastards who "should do better".
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