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No, corporations shouldn't have moral responsibility
Corporations are the sum of individual decisions. They don't know right from wrong and cannot be punished. Therefore, it makes far more sense to limit morals to the individual.
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- Corporations can’t be punishedIf a corporation cannot be punished, then it doesn't make sense for it to define its morally acceptable and unacceptable behaviours.
- Corporations depend on individual decisionsThe direction and approach corporations take depends on individual decisions.
- Other collectives don’t have moralsOther groupings of individuals do not have morals. Therefore, corporations shouldn't be expected to have moral agency.
- Corporations are prisoners of economic incentiveCorporations are prisoners of economics, leaving them unable to have an attitude towards social good or a conscience.
- Only a person can have morals"Moral responsibility" is big business so transparently attempting to seem human-like or good while ultimately missing the entire meaning of the phrase itself. Only an individual can enact in a "moral" way, while a big company cannot possibly inhabit the inner morality of each and every one of its employees.
- Corporate morals dehumanize the individualOnce a corporation attempts to force its values on its employees, it risks dehumanizing them. "Moral responsibility" is a message that so clearly disenfranchises the individuals within that company who must fall under and conform to that ambiguous mantra, blanketing over them with a meaningless phrase that steals their senses of expression.