Lemdro.id

2 points

5 months ago

there is a lot of waffling about there, all for you to admit that you think “i was just following orders” was a valid excuse for the holocaust.

and then the idiotic “Communism is like a fire place”, you may think your comparisons sagely and wise, but they only serve to show how little you actually know, or have thought about any of this, for example, like I said before, do not equate capitalism with the advances of modernity, the standard of living started to improve a long time before capitalism was a thing, ironically capitalism strives to reduce the standard of living.

PS: it’s very easy to legislate corporations, that’s why they hate the EU so much.

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DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world

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1 point

5 months ago

I think you need to re-read the comment a few times because I have no idea who was talking about taking orders or holocaust.

As for my comparison, I made it as simplifies as I am possibly able to yet you still very obviously don’t understand if you think I am talking about advances of modernity.

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1 point

5 months ago

Ahe logic of corporations being some non-moral entities, like fire, is the same logic that the Nazis used at the Nuremberg trials when they uttered the famous line of just following orders. The idea being that they were not responsible for the shit they did, as it was just a function of how the Nazis worked.

And yes, it is perfectly apt to call out flaws in your argument by using other, well known examples of the same theory being applied.

As for your comparison, I have pointed out that it’s shit because corporations aren’t some inherent force of nature and are entirely dictated both by society though the legislative process, and by the people committing the actions.

Fire exists outside human preview, no human “created” fire, fire has always been a thing because it’s a natural force, meanwhile, Corporations didn’t exist until English and Dutch traders pooled money and resources in the 1600s

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DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world

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1 point

5 months ago

Omg, you are so hung up on fire being natural phenomena. Fine, replace fire with nuclear rods. They are man made, they are dangerous. You can make them not radioactive but then they are useless and arguably no longer nuclear rods.

And who said the individuals in a corporation should enjoy some sort of immunity for following orders (or even giving them)? If employees break the law, prosecute them. Stop injecting nonsense into the conversation.

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1 point

5 months ago

Omg, you are so hung up on fire being natural phenomena

ya, one would think that in terms of morality, one being entirely a construct of humans, and the other being a natural phenomenon, there is a bit of a difference to be had

Fine, replace fire with nuclear rods. They are man made, they are dangerous.

again, radiation is a natural force, the nuclear rod doesn’t do anything by its self. now one CAN talk about the uses of said nuclear rod, and THAT has moral implications, you know like how a bomb is amoral, but the army using it is very much morally culpable (unless of course you think the German army of 1933-1945 isn’t evil), because both armies and corporations are the same thing, a human construct.

And who said the individuals in a corporation should enjoy some sort of immunity for following orders (or even giving them)?

so the Nazis weren’t the problem, just the individuals, ok.

If employees break the law, prosecute them. Stop injecting nonsense into the conversation.

if you don’t dump this toxic sludge in the middle of this town, your children will starve (yes, this is a thing that really happened), material circumstances exist, and any corporation not leveraging these material circumstances is lying or bankrupt (hence corporations are evil)

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DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world

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0 points

5 months ago

unless of course you think the German army of 1933-1945 isn’t evil

You do realize you are the one implying the Nazi soldiers aren’t evil, because the individual soldiers were threatened into serving:

if you don’t dump this toxic sludge in the middle of this town, your children will starve (yes, this is a thing that really happened), material circumstances exist,

So are people who are threatened into evil evil themselves? Make up your mind.

Either way, it is not relevant for my argument.

The way a group of individuals pursuing their goals interact with each other is a law of nature just as much as radiation. We just call a specific type of such group a corporation, just like we call a specific arrangement of fissile material a nuclear fuel rod.

Sure, you can “make” a corporation not be greedy by for example turning it into a non-profit. But you can’t do it without making unintentional undesirable changes, namely stopping them from being efficient in creating value. Just like you can “make” a nuclear fuel rod less radioactive, but not without damaging its usefulness as fuel. Because you can’t change the laws of how individual actions in a group create a complex system.

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5 months ago

You do realize you are the one implying the Nazi soldiers aren’t evil, because the individual soldiers were threatened into serving

that only works if you have some hard-line stance against seeing the world as anything but purely individualistic, in fact no I propose the opposite, even those who did not themselves commit the gassings at Auschwitz were guilty of these killings, because, turns out after years and years of research, No man is an island unto himself.

The way a group of individuals pursuing their goals interact with each other is a law of nature just as much as radiation

but it isn’t, to assume as such is to assert your ignorance on such a profound scale, not just in the legal sense but also in the Historical and Societal. How we organize, and interact as a society is completely and totally alien to those who lived but three generations before us, to claim it is a natural constant on the level of radioactive decay or exothermic reactions is beyond delusional.

Fundamentally, you can’t comprehend why a corporation is a moral entity because you don’t understand the difference between a concept and a rock.

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