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YES ! Now you're getting it. The company will be fined or forced to pay restitution or whatever other action the court decides is warranted because of the ACTIONS the corporation took or didn't take. Have you actually never read a newspaper report of these cases or TV news?
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Have you heard of negligent homicide? That's a criminal offense punishable . We're past fines at that point.
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Complex systems can cause things that no one of their parts can, that's the nature of complex systems. The joke a poster made about your cells was to remind you that you are a complex system but your individual parts are not equivalent to you.
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The joke that other poster made was irrelevant to my or the OP's point. You can't morally judge the cells in my fingers because they don't have a choice in whether I type or not. Just as you can't morally judge the lightning bolt for hitting your house.
That is really my whole point for this thread. You can't morally judge any action but purposeful action and purposeful action is performed by individuals.
Here's a wiki article that describes the type of individualism that I'm talking about. I didn't just make this stuff up for the purposes of exonerating the actions of those in the Church for past actions.