From what I understand, Corporate Personhood is pretty bogus. It essentially states that a corporation is entitled to certain (but not all) natural rights that humans are typically attributed, such as the ability to sue and be sued, endorse political candidates (allowing them to funnel millions of dollars into their campaigns), and the right to religious freedom. However, you cannot incarcerate a corporation because it’s not really a person. Like Jon Stewart joked, one way to show a corporation isn’t a human is through its “inability to love”. The ramifications of granting corporations these rights makes it seem like corporations are entities that can do whatever they want without consequence. This is an oversimplification, but a corporation really can’t be arrested; its CEOs and board members can, and the company could go bankrupt, but the corporation itself is not damaged, physically, because it is an entity and not a corporeal being.
After reading into the Muslim Registry case study, I believe tech workers and companies are right to pledge not to actively work on building an immigration database. While it is based in moral and ethical views, I don’t see how having something like this, which literally profiles and makes those targeted individuals feel unsafe, can sit well with anyone. In the grand scheme of things, it’s hard to justify having a database like this when it probably would not even help in the long run. Like with the unsuccessfulness of the NSA and its government surveillance, I don’t see having a registration of US citizens and immigrants of Islamic decent/religious practice would help anything but stoke the raging fire of animosity and stigma against Muslims already burning. Sure, proponents of having a registry would say that they think it makes them feel safer and will justify its existence with this opinion. However, if the tables were turned, they would feel outraged. To have a database based on profiling a person because of their race or religion is a violation of human privacy. To turn that data over to the government and use it to “weed out” the wrongdoers or illegal immigrants feels unfair for those who are just trying to live their life and mind their own business. I think that companies do need to make business decisions with morality and ethics in mind. To make decisions without it could be severely detrimental to the general public, as well as the company itself. I believe it’s very important to consider the triple bottom line of “people, planet, and revenue” when considering business decisions and how to move forward. We cannot make decisions that affect the planet and its residents without first thinking about the ramifications it can have. To put it short, it would be irresponsible to all parties involved. A company also cannot make immoral decisions without hearing back from public outcry and risking a significant flop in how the company is received. Since companies are often caterers to its consumers (because they are the ones who are providing them with the money), they must take into consideration what they may think and how they may react before making decisions.
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