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I was having a discussion with a liberal friend and she was going on and on about how "the evil corporations" are destroying the environment and ruining the lives of people around the globe. And I finally realized why we see things so different.

I don't give corporations human traits. Eventhough the law gives corporations some recognition usually reserved for people, ie.: the ability to be sued or to file lawsuits, etc., in my view corporations are no more human than the paper corporate charters are written on. Base on my view corporations can not be inherently good, bad, evil, honest, dishonest, disloyal, unpatriotic, or anything else like the way she was describing corporations. People can be all of those things and the people runing corpaorations can be those things and run corporations in ways that we can characterize. But the legal title of a business has no bearing in how PEOPLE run the business.

She seemed to think that people are the victims of corporations. I think people are victims of other people in this context. She seemed to think that it is o.k. to define a corporation with thousands of people employed, in hundreds of various divisions by the acts of a single person or division. I don't. I look for the bad people who did bad things or people who made mistakes. Realizing this fundemental difference, I was able to begin to understand some of her points rather than thinking she was clueless.

I curious about how some of you see this?

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