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Re: [dvd-discuss] RE: [DVD-discuss] Dion's new CD crashing party for someusers



On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 12:25:39PM -0700, Michael A Rolenz wrote:
> Your last paragraph rather sums it up....UCITA, DMCA, and all that really 
> are attempts by corporations to abridge due process . Now to be honest I 
> do not believe that the officers of most corporations see it that way but 
> "the road to Hell is paved with good intentions"...or in this case less 
> honorable ones-preserving corporate profits. 

corporations have evolved into beings complex enough to develop their
own dynamics. if we consider them a kind of "life form" - not in the
biological sense, more in a complex systems sense, then profit is their
primary goal, their "meaning of life", so to speak.
it also follows that a corporation threatened in its survival or
profitability will not give any more thought to "moral rights" of human
beings then we give to "moral rights" of the bacteria we kill when we
fight an illness.

there is some hope in the fact that corporations do, ultimately,
consist of human beings. but the human body consists of individual
cells just as much as the bacteria do. the question is not what the
smallest unit is, but whether or not the feeling of being relatives
survives in the larger structure. human bodies are an excellent way to
not have to care about the individual cell anymore, and corporations
are an excellent way to remove accountability from the individuals.

the ethical problem here is that human bodies are an evolutionary step
ABOVE the bacteria. the human body has more options, greater
possibilities and a higher complexity. corporations, on the other hand,
are a step DOWN on the evolutionary ladder. they have only one goal
(profit), only a single frame of mind (market-thought) and while
seemingly a higher, in fact a lower complexity (because everything they
do can be reduced to moves in the market sphere, whereas human beings
live and move in many more spheres.



uh... end-of-stream-of-consciousness.


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