Need help with LD debate!!!?
The actions of corporations ought to be held to the same moral standards as the actions of individuals.
What do you think. Please be specific and detailed. If you have quotes, that would help a lot too.
Thanks
Being pro or con would help on building arguments.
It is impossible to hold corporations to the same standard as an individual because an individual makes their own decision on their own, however a corporation has descisions made by commitee. If it is decided that it is cheaper to pay the EPA fine than to properly dispose of chemicle waste, that was not a decision made by Bob in acounting, a group voted on taking that action. Where as if I decided to burn a bunch of tires in my back yard, that is all me and I would be facing the EPA fine myself.
A corporation is really an entity that you cannot take and throw in jail. Also you cannot distroy it because it has a role in the economy such as providing jobs. It looks really bad putting hundreds of people in a soup line because of a bad coporate decision. So the basic differences in how the law looks at corporations and individuals makes it so that a different moral measuring stick has to be used.
It is bad because corporations can activly break laws that would have people thrown in jail for. Such as Blackberry is stolen technology but they got away with it because so many people now depend on that technology to work (If I was judge I would have turned over control to the people it was stolen from, but alas it wasn’t up to me). The people who did it paid an ungodly fine but they still became mega rich by doing it. Now how doees morality play here. It was stolen but is also is not right for all the people who paid for their Blackberries to suffer and lose their phone who bought it through honest means. Which is why corporationsare different than individuals because to punish a corporation means that you can adversly effect people who had no clue that an illegal act was done.
So no, a corporation should not be held to the same standard as an individual.
But corporations are made up of individuals, who are (or at least should be) held to the same moral standards as everyone else.
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Being pro or con would help on building arguments.
It is impossible to hold corporations to the same standard as an individual because an individual makes their own decision on their own, however a corporation has descisions made by commitee. If it is decided that it is cheaper to pay the EPA fine than to properly dispose of chemicle waste, that was not a decision made by Bob in acounting, a group voted on taking that action. Where as if I decided to burn a bunch of tires in my back yard, that is all me and I would be facing the EPA fine myself.
A corporation is really an entity that you cannot take and throw in jail. Also you cannot distroy it because it has a role in the economy such as providing jobs. It looks really bad putting hundreds of people in a soup line because of a bad coporate decision. So the basic differences in how the law looks at corporations and individuals makes it so that a different moral measuring stick has to be used.
It is bad because corporations can activly break laws that would have people thrown in jail for. Such as Blackberry is stolen technology but they got away with it because so many people now depend on that technology to work (If I was judge I would have turned over control to the people it was stolen from, but alas it wasn’t up to me). The people who did it paid an ungodly fine but they still became mega rich by doing it. Now how doees morality play here. It was stolen but is also is not right for all the people who paid for their Blackberries to suffer and lose their phone who bought it through honest means. Which is why corporationsare different than individuals because to punish a corporation means that you can adversly effect people who had no clue that an illegal act was done.
So no, a corporation should not be held to the same standard as an individual.
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yes they should, there is no reason to claim someone is above the law, just because a committee make a decision that is unlawful.
look at it this way. if an organized crime cartel makes a decision to sell drugs, is the person who works for them going to be indicted when they are caught or not?? or will it be chalked up to the fact that a committee made the decision?
laws are laws and ethics are ethics, and if you can’t turn a profit while following them, then you should make way for someone who is intelligent enough to do so.
personally, i think if a business does something illegal that is major, such as steal someone else’s product and is going to get away with it because "so many people depends on it", that business should be seized by the government, and turned into a community project where the profit is government funds.
this sounds a bit like socialism, but it happens every day in other law enforcement situations.
and as long as the government doesn’t allow this business to progress any farther than needed to provide the necessary services to its customers, then any other business can wipe it out right??
considering the large amounts of $$ the governemnt would be making on businesses, that became criminal, taxes could easily be lowered.
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Baylor Brief.