dwandy's Journal: Ethics p.1

If a company does something unethical, people defend the company saying: It's a business, it has a legal obligation to increase shareholder value, and as long as it's not illegal, the company must do it. These are just "good businessmen".
If a person does something which a business believes is taking money away from them, they raise the "ethics" flag, trying to guilt people into agreeing with new and harsher laws to make the ethics construct into a legal one.

Double standard much? Not really: it's just the business behaving unethically again which we already agreed was Ok, as long as it's legal and raises shareholder value.

Corporations are just a mechanism to allow bad people to go to church on Sunday...