On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 06:02 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > C Shore wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 06:49:03PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > >> And the corporations are trying to prevent from folding. BTW, you do > >>realize that corporations are nothing more than individuals just like you. > > > That's a load of crap perpetuated by lawyers. A coporation is not > > person in any reasonable definition of the word. > > That's not what I said. I said that corporations are nothing more than > individuals just like you. Note the plural. What makes up a corporation. > Uhm, individual human beings. When people say "Corporations do this" and > "Corporations do that" they are demonizing an entity which is, at the very > core, made up of and run by people just like them. To question why certain > decisions are made by "corporations" while ignoring that people make the same > decisions, is to show a monumental amount of ignorance. To assume that what a group decides is equivalent to the decisions that would be made by any rational, individual member of said group, is to show a monumental amount of ignorance. (If I may borrow a phrase from Steve here.) Groupthink[1] is a very powerful force in human behavior. Many extremely bad decisions have been made through the years because of it and its sister stupidities: herd behavior[2], mob mentality[3], conformism[4], et al[5]. And many of those bad decisions have been brought to light only because of the willingness of rational INDIVIDUALS to identify those decisions as stupid and speak out or act out against them. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_behaviour [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mob_mentality [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformism [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink#See_also -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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