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Continuing on your final point, comparing the consequences businesses should face for breaking regulations with the consequences that criminals should receive,

Continuing on your final point, comparing the consequences businesses should face for breaking regulations with the consequences that criminals should receive, how would you feel about applying the analogy on the other side? Specifically, would you actually prefer to see people as individuals whose only goal is maximizing their personal interests, all else be damned? Should they exploit every interpersonal relationship and externalise every negativity in their selfish-driven mandate? Should short-term personal wants trump long term anything? If yes, I don't like the society that would result, but I respect the consistency in the idea. And if not, why should individuals be subject to more stringent moral rules than companies?

alright_scowl 4y ago
> Specifically, would you actually prefer to see people as individuals whose only goal is maximizing their personal interests, all else be damned? Should they exploit every interpersonal relationship and externalise every negativity in their selfish-driven mandate? Should short-term personal wants trump long term anything? People are already pretty selfish, and without any regulation and oversight they will definitely act in ways that are detrimental to society. That's why we have laws and law enforcement. The only difference from corporations is that people do not only pursue money. They may have different goals (sex, pleasure, power, influence). That makes people notoriously difficult to parse, and dealing with them is extremely frustrating. Corporations are easy, they are the incarnation of greed. For them money is all that matters.