yep, continue the whole idea that it's those bad corporations that are the puppet masters. Awesome comment above Flee

just the general sentiment, nothing common to this thread or you in particular. The zeit geist is to claim that corporations are evil, thieves, misuse their workers etc.

you make the mistake between assigning mankind as selfish and self serving, vs an entity that has no moral capability as evil. Storms, weather and natural events don't have any moral implications, the results of those events might be negative, but that doesn't make them evil. I would imagine that if you were an employee of a corporation and received benefits, income, and iretirement from them, then they aren't "evil", but if you were the mom & pop store put out of business by that same corp coming to town, then your perspective is different. Neither of those examples insinuates good or evil.

so, you take a quote from Qaddafi being sodomized after death, and attribute it to corporations? Interesting use of selective copy/paste I guess.

I believe in the lack of humanities ability to rise above their imperfect state. I believe that if you look at the history of the world, we haven't gotten better, we just know more and that doesn't always translate into doing what is best for the race. Although the sentiment is accurate saying that I don't have a good opinion of humanity, the comment was about an atrocity that borders on obscenity, comparing that to a corp. behavior is not accurate. So in my mind, the two aren't related. I don't assign morality to a business. Certainly you can do business ethically, but the mere fact that a business is profit driven doesn't make it evil, that is the sweeping generalization that I object to both here, and in theory with OWS

I understand now, I would concur that any human organization is going to amplify the ethics of the person(s) involved. That doesn't mean the course can't be changed, but from my position on anthropology, there can only be so much "ggod" done because inevitably, people serve themselves by nature. Whether that means they agree with philosophies that align with their thoughts on subjects, or actively try to change things to the definition of the world as they see it.