Friday, August 25 2006: Screw You, too
I didn't really touch on the "evil" angle before. In the most basic sense, the "good" of the corporation is to maximize profit and minimize cost. A person that displays these qualities is usually taken to be greedy and selfish (possibly even destructively so). So anthropomorphization could be part of the reason corporations are so readily cast in a bad light.
Corporations are basically a social instituition that pools the resources of multiple human beings to achieve collectively more than any one individual could. This is good when the corporation is run ethically. However, there is a much greater potential for evil and destruction when a corporation is not run by moral persons for the same reason. So, corporations aren't necessarily evil, but simply potentially evil. Is this controversial?