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> If they are amoral entity, I'm sure they won't care for Spanish government doing unethical but not illegal things to them as well. Why would that be true? It
by khedoros 10y ago
> If they are amoral entity, I'm sure they won't care for Spanish government doing unethical but not illegal things to them as well.
Why would that be true? It would be inconsistent for them not to fight for their own self-interest. Also: Governments must be held to higher standards than corporations.
I expect the Spanish government to act (nominally) in the best interests of its citizens. I expect Google to act in its own best interests.
- varjag 10y agoSeparation of morality and law is a recent trend. For most of human history, morality was the law. As such, it was a social contract born out of necessity and not some arbitrary installation. It's fine to take a modern, legalistic, maximize-shareholder-value-or-gtfo approach and eschew the ethics and spirit of law perspective altogether. However, generally it would be irrational for corporation to expect a favourable outcome in a survivalist game on a legal field against the host government. That's why most corporations at least do lip service to ethics, community values, social responsibility and so on. Which leads us to square one.
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