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Organizations can be moral in two ways: 1. As you note: They are made up of people, usually only a few with the ultimate power. Whatever the legal or organizational structures, human morality is inherited from the decision makers. 2. But also: Aside from the individuals, decision making structures within any organization (or mechanism for that matter) can be set up to align with morality or not. I.e. incentives, metr…
In the "can be" vs. "is" argument, a point that's frequently neglected is what's the prevelance of the circumstance argued? How many commercial business corporate entities are explicitly structured with a moral focus as their principle organising principle? Would that even stand up under corporate law in most jurisdictions (e.g., Delaware, where the state supreme court has pretty much upheld the Friedman "shareholder…
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I don't think a "moral focus as their principle organizing principle" is necessary for a moral corporation any more than I think it is necessary for a moral human.
It's enough that a company's structure, whether implicitly or explicitly, aligns itself with the long term good for all stakeholders, i.e. the greater good. As apposed to aligning with short term or short sighted good at the expense of long term and wider focused good.
After all, some "good" people are just expressing their personality as it naturally developed. Others are intentionally expressing principles they spent years considering. Is one type of "good" person better than the other?
And of course the opposite: Some seemingly evil people are acting on the only instincts they seem to have, while others are well aware of the damage they do. Both people might have the same IQ, access to situational awareness, etc., so we are likely to judge both the same, but their actions can come from very different places internally.
Morality is clearest at the behavioral level of a system or human. Less clear the deeper into the internal causes one looks.