>> it "feels" wrong to give a corporation-sized punishment to a small group of individuals This feeling has a name; loss aversion. It's a really interesting h

>> it "feels" wrong to give a corporation-sized punishment to a small group of individuals This feeling has a name; loss aversion. It's a really interesting human traits. About 66% of people feel bad when someone else does well. The impact of this feeling on behavior (even behavior that is self-harming) is instructive. The concept of "Fairness" comes into play as well. Many people have an expectation that the "world is fair" despite every evidence that it isn't. That results in "everything I don't get is unfair" whereas "everything I get I earned on my own." Someone rlse getting a windfall is thus "unfair".