I recently blogged about how much I appreciated one aspect of the design of the aluminum can, and in this blog (Aluminum Cans, EHRs, and Incidental Design) I mentioned Alcoa and Reynolds Metals.
Corporations are embedded into our lives, and determine much of the quality of our lives. I am opposed to a blind animosity towards them (see my post The Animosity Towards BigX , but I do feel we need to avoid humanizing them (see my post “ΨMorality”, And Why Corporations Are Like The Gods).
I want to develop a way to understand how the pseudo-ethics (Ψethics) of a corporation are related to the human ethics of the people employed at the corporation and the human ethics of the people who use their service.
For example, what is the relationship between the personal ethics of defense contracting vice-president at Boeing, my ethics as one of Boeing’s periodic customers ( when I fly on British Airways from Seattle to Heathrow, it’s usually in a Boeing 747 or 777), and the Ψethics of the Boeing Corporation?
Rephrased, does my flying British Airways make me partially responsible ethically for Boeing’s laser-guided weapons?
To put it bluntly: If Ψethics (corporation) = f (employee ethics, everyone else’s ethics), what is the function f?