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Good people refuse to do bad things

144 points · 147 comments · Brajeshwar

moondistance · 1790006318 · focus · HN ↗
The root issue is a lack of honour in the world today.
1. vvpan · 1790007015 · focus · HN ↗
  I think that puts too much onto personal responsibility. Most problems are structural.
  1. zaphar · 1790009640 · focus · HN ↗
    Personal responsibility leads to corporate responsibility which is the solve for structural problems. You can never impose a new structure to fix it unless you embrace some form of corporate responsibility which requires personal responsibility.
    vvpan · 1790019905 · focus · HN ↗
    By law the only corporate responsibility is to shareholders (and law). [1]
    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
    zaphar · 1790024821 · focus · HN ↗
    I was not referring to corporations.
  2. phyzome · 1790016448 · focus · HN ↗
    And that structure is made of people, and supported by people's decisions.
    People are very happy to abdicate what personal responsibility they have if they can blame the system. (And then fail to help change the system.)
    vvpan · 1790019961 · focus · HN ↗
    A system where shareholder value is effectively the only metric will align the people accordingly.

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