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One person doesn't do this, a company does, a hierarchy of jobs. An entity without a conscience built from entities with a conscience. Very clever.
by twiceaday 3y ago
One person doesn't do this, a company does, a hierarchy of jobs. An entity without a conscience built from entities with a conscience. Very clever.
- t-writescode 3y agoThe banality of evil.
- corethree 3y agoThe irony here is that the entities with a conscience are very much aware of what their doing. Very very much aware. So there's not much difference is there? Actually there is. The difference is in a quirk of moral evolutionary psychology. The tragedy of the commons. As an individual each of those entities contributes negligible evil to society. In aggregate that negligible evil becomes prominent. Morality is divided up into fractional shares and sold like a collateral debt obligation. Every time you step into a car and let that thing spew green house gases into the air you are contributing to the destruction of the world. The individual is still guilty. We call corporations evil, but what we don't realize is that corporations are a mirror of humanity.