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Agree entirely on principle, but nobody should be dehumanized, if nothing else because it is a very ineffective way to model your opponent.

And hurting other for greed is surely not humane, but it is very much human. Big difference that e at the end.



Modeling a group of people, answerable to yet another, even larger group of people, as “a person” is what I would call even worse modeling.


It's not that a company is a person. It's that it's multiple people, some of whom make decisions.


Exactly, and groups of people behave differently from a single person in many important ways.


Yes - they have more legs. But what they are not is a homogenised mass, all as equally guilty or innocent of issues as the other. If 3 executives do something bad, those 3 executives are to blame. And not some nothing-to-do-with-people corporation.


I agree! That's why I didn't say "are culpable differently" but "behave differently".


One of HN's biggest intellectual blind spots is mistaking explanation with justification. Looks like your comment was caught up in that.




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