Corporate totalitarianism?

Jim Choate ravage at EINSTEIN.ssz.com
Sat Jul 28 06:32:40 PDT 2001



On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Steve Thompson wrote:

> How strange.  It's always individuals working within a corporation who should
> be culpable for offences committed as a result of its business practices.
> Will this not have the effect of divorcing personal responsibility further
> from the executive and employees of a company?
> 
> Furthermore, might not the `death' of a company in some cases penalise other
> companies which depend on the products or services of the `offender' leading
> to a reluctance to prosecute the largest and arguably the worst criminals?
> 
> At least when the responsible individuals are prosecuted, there is an
> opportunity to `clean house' and reform the offending institution, as it
> were.

The only way to 'clean house' is to remove humans from the equation, not
reasonable.

What happens instead is that the business practice of the business changes
so the previous chain of evidence is destroyed in a timely fashion or else
doesn't exist.


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