Reply #16: Yeah, I do. I think it's pretty much bogus...

[eallen]

It's part of the anti-capitalist mythology held by the socialist camp, that there is some utopia out there waiting for us if only we were to get rid of corporations. So "corporate" becomes a byword for all sorts of things.

Just because many on the Republican side make themselves defenders of anything and everything that is done in the name of business does not mean that we should take the opposite and equally mistaken tact of painting business as evil per se. Being in the liberal camp -- not a socialist -- I don't view corporate as inherently good or evil. I view incorporation as an important mechanism in capitalism. I don't think corporations should be viewed as people or given the legal rights that people are. But neither do I hold to this mythology that everything wrong with the world is because of the capital-C Corporations. Myths are easiest to puncture where people start stretching their terms to fit reality that doesn't meet the myth. So yeah, I dispute that thrust.