I'm sorry if It sounds like I was straw-manning you. I was replying to the general approach and I guess that is a straw man. BTW, I often take a similar opinio

I'm sorry if It sounds like I was straw-manning you. I was replying to the general approach and I guess that is a straw man. BTW, I often take a similar opinion to the one you iterated. You can probably see in the comment, I'm on the fence. I agree that yelling about ethics is very silly and won't change a system. Changing rules and working with incentives is the way that we, as societies, run by institutions can fix things. On the other hand the mentality we are cultivating (in ourselves) by thinking this way is nihilistic and (poignantly) silly. Anyway, if we are examining institutions, the corporation might be one to put under the glass. While corporations are an innovation (in law of all things!) that has created incredible wealth, it's also pathological. At least it generates pathologies in people. It narrows a company (group of people)'s duties to investor profits. That's not normal for humans. Humans are made to balance a wide set of "interests" and understand them intuitively. I don't mean to imply that signing a piece of paper suddenly makes a business pathological but internalizing the implied mentality does. That's happening on a global level.