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I don’t think it comes from being evil as such. Not a hollywood villain evil, at any rate. Antropomorphic personifications of Shell or BP would sure come out a
by WesolyKubeczek 5y ago
I don’t think it comes from being evil as such. Not a hollywood villain evil, at any rate.
Antropomorphic personifications of Shell or BP would sure come out as very ruthless businessmen with enormous egos, deeply afraid of criticism and dealing with it dirty at times. But people who make up those corporations and direct them and so on are often driven by desires to do their jobs as efficiently as they can, make their dime, and deeply wishing that could please some unintended consequences of their jobs please be someone else’s problem. Please? “Will no one rid me of this turbulent environmental activist?”
In other words, a pretty normal situation in a big company.
- tsimionescu 5y agoSure, but that would mean that the company as an entity is amoral, which the previous comment claimed "they are really not".
- fsckboy 5y agobut you're conflating amoral with immoral; they are not the same
- tsimionescu 5y agoI am not. You can claim that Shell and other oil companies are either amoral (they are not moral entities, their decisions are not subject to moral considerations), which is what you were saying; or, you can claim that they are immoral (they are moral entities, and have been making the wrong moral choices). But I don't think there is any way to see them as moral (as in morally good).