SUMMARY OF THE CLASS
The class was about corporations and the development was based in a video called "THE CORPORATION" that explains issues as the progressive development of the corporations during the history and how the people have used them to make their own profits. The video explains that corporations are an efficient creation that is based in a business community that gives as an excellent definition that is: "corporations are a group of individuals working together to achieve specific objectives".
The history of the corporations starts in 1712 in Britain during the industrial age. Corporations act as legal persons, they have rights and their basic objective is to make as much money as they can, to grow and have profits, a corporation is like an externalized machine.
Actually corporations are part of the society, they are in the decision making of the government, they are playing an important role in the globalization process, but them, they have an environmental role, if they make disasters in the environment they have to pay for that, the problem is that even though they pay for the disasters, maybe the environment wouldn’t be equal and people, animals and plants are being affected by this.
Corporations can't do whatever they want, they have a lot of obligations and implications in each decision, but really, the objective of corporations is to be aggressive in the market, to face the competition. People want money, not to be nice and good.
Question:
In this documentary, corporations are defined as “legal entities” and they meet the clinical definition of psychopathic behavior. Do you agree, why, or why not?
I agree that corporations or legal entities fulfill the definition of psychopathic behavior, because behavior like this, companies are behaving selfishly, without giving importance to the rights of others, are constantly in conflict with society, act to have its own satisfaction and they have no moral awareness. Corporations are forced to put the money and profits before the interest of others.
RESOURCES:
- "The Lunatic You Work For; Face Valu." The Economis Vol. 371. Iss.8374 (2004): 80. Proquest. Web. 3 Aug. 2010.
- http://www.accesstoinfo.blogspot.com/
- http://www.economist.com/
- http://www.thecorporation.com/
- http://www.acosomoral.org/28.htm
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