also, it's rather difficult
to force a moral imperative, which is after all, a human psychological condition, onto a gigantic inanimate company. Which exists to make money. Why on earth should it behave morally? Even considering my status as one of Rswipe's socialist nemeses, I really do struggle to understand why people can't see that, or even bother to get worked up about it.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 14:27, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Precisement
The only way to force morality onto big businesses is to round up all the top people from each company and execute them one by one until the rest agree to play fair.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 14:34, Reply)

No, even then
the survivors would still be legally obliged to try and make the most amount of money they could. The only way to stop a practice you might consider "morally wrong" is to regulate businesses to make it illegal for them to do it.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 14:46, Reply)

This.
and if you want to do that a) you have to make the penalties for breaking the law so severe that it wouldn't make economic sense to do it, otherwise they would do is carry on breaking the law and pay the fines whilst reaping higher profits, because it's an economic consideration not a moral one and b) Really, if you want to do that, probably best not to vote in a Tory administration, eh? Oh wait. Oh, you already did. Bad luck, there.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 15:05, Reply)

have you never heard of
"corporate social responsibility" ? each of these big businesses REALLY believes in it.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 14:42, Reply)

Exactly
They like to help Vietnamese children.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 14:44, Reply)

Oh, for sure. they earnestly believe in that. as long as it means they sell more shit.
It just bugs me that people think that companies should have responsibility, at least to anyone apart from their shareholders. Why should they?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 14:48, Reply)