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Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
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Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:23:23 GMT
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James Brown wrote:
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
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> > Governments, corporations, charities, people, etc. will all (in general)
> > take and use as much power as is given to them. But as Scott pointed
> > out, we don't give corporations the power to abuse us to the same
> > degree. Or at least in the same ways.
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> Yes, but in my understanding (which I'm willing to admit may be flawed) a
> Libertarian system would grant corporations much more power than they
> currently experience.
In some ways that might be true. In others, and I think these are more
important, corporations would be severely limited to fair play. If
decision makers were personally held civilly and criminally liable for
their actions, they would think twice about the behaviors they have
their companies engage in.
The current system requires companies to do what's profitable for the
shareholders in the short term. This means that if they can make a buck
doing something immoral, they often will. If, in addition to whatever
the company could be sued for, the president, CEO, board of directors,
and potentially stock holders could be held jointly and severally
liable, companies would never hurt people in ways that could come back
to haunt them.
I think the nature of business would change for the more efficient, but
not at the cost of businesses taking over the job of abusing the rights
of citizens from the government.
Chris
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