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Problems of Tunnel Vision
As I understood bartlett56,
"People need to understand the role of --
1) People -- To care for ourselves, loved ones, and our community.
2) Business -- To provide product, innovation, and wealth.
3) Government -- To provide security, structure, and a base set of rules."

Each without regard for any of the others. I cannot dissagree more. It creates the attitude of "Every Man For Himself, And The Devil Take The Hindermost." (Author lost in antiquity) That is what has happened to make "common sense & common courtesy uncommon commidities."

Government cannot effectively police such that the greedy ones like the leaders of Enron and others have already hurt many. The only way to avoid that is to have a society in which the perpetrators of harm are made to fully remimburse those that they have harmed and paid for the costs of identifying them and prosecuting them. Managment of a corporation must be considered to be like the captain of a ship. If your corporation causes pain and suffering, the CEO and other top management must be made to reimburse those whom they hurt. When a CEO makes or allows a decision, that will increase his worth and/or his income, and that decision results in damage to others, then he and the others in management should be made to pay.
January 25, 2008

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Amen My Foot
I like it the way that my father, (1907-1988) put it. "Anything carried to its rediculous extreme, is by definition rediculous."

The thinking person can find ways to do good and justify their cost by the good will and positive PR that they generate. As was said earlier, check out some of the examples such as Ben & Jerry's.
January 25, 2008

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