On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 10:05 -0800, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 06:02 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > C Shore wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 06:49:03PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > >> And the corporations are trying to prevent from folding. BTW, you do > > >>realize that corporations are nothing more than individuals just like you. > > > > > That's a load of crap perpetuated by lawyers. A coporation is not > > > person in any reasonable definition of the word. > > > > That's not what I said. I said that corporations are nothing more than > > individuals just like you. Note the plural. What makes up a corporation. > > Uhm, individual human beings. When people say "Corporations do this" and > > "Corporations do that" they are demonizing an entity which is, at the very > > core, made up of and run by people just like them. To question why certain > > decisions are made by "corporations" while ignoring that people make the > > same > > decisions, is to show a monumental amount of ignorance. > > To assume that what a group decides is equivalent to the decisions that > would be made by any rational, individual member of said group, is to > show a monumental amount of ignorance. (If I may borrow a phrase from > Steve here.) > > Groupthink[1] is a very powerful force in human behavior. Many extremely > bad decisions have been made through the years because of it and its > sister stupidities: herd behavior[2], mob mentality[3], conformism[4], > et al[5]. And many of those bad decisions have been brought to light > only because of the willingness of rational INDIVIDUALS to identify > those decisions as stupid and speak out or act out against them.
Did Steve ever mention "rational"? I don't think so. Steve's point is that it's still *people* doing the deeds. When you walk into an office building, you aren't *forcefully* assimil- ted into the Borg collective. It's *individuals* *choosing* to go along with Groupthing, conform- ism, etc. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. Am I the only Atheist that thinks that Quantum Cosmology, String Theory, etc is the modern form of debating how many Angels can dance on the head of a pin? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]