I agree with your overall point, but I wanted to comment on this: > Companies are amoral This is presented as a truism, but it is not true. Companies can be a

I agree with your overall point, but I wanted to comment on this: > Companies are amoral This is presented as a truism, but it is not true. Companies can be as moral as they wish to be. One of the reasons we have found ourselves auctioning off the arms and legs of American industry to China is this race-to-the-bottom mentality of "it's just business" that prioritizes short term profit over the long term viability of a company. Yet those companies have lobbyists, marketers, and advertisers, which they use to fight expensive battles in the marketplace and regulatory forum. Some companies even have the benefit of being under the same ownership umbrella as a venerated newspaper or popular cable news network. Morality doesn't dissipate into thin air just because a few people throw their lot in together and try to make money. Apart from having financial incentives to do no harm to their customers or areas of service, companies have the capacity to make decisions based on reasoning about what is right and what is wrong. There is no fiduciary duty to do harm for the sake of profit.