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Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
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Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:35:43 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
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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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
In the interests of not repeating myself:
http://www.lugnet.com/off-topic/debate/?n=3742
Also, I don't think individuals have (in the general case) enough resources
for personal liability to be feasable/sufficient. An example of this occured
recently in Alberta - a number of people were infected with Hepatitis C from
improperly screened blood. With the people involved getting (IMHO) a
reasonable settlement, the sheer number of people made the settlement HUGE(1)
- well beyond the means of the vast majority of company officers/gov't
officials.
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
1: 1.1 billion, IIRC
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| (...) As another example, look at the people that AIDS from blood transfusions, while there were already good indications that HIV was transmitted through blood-contact ("it hasn't been proven yet that HIV causes AIDS!" (which is still true)), and (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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