| > Companies don't "believe" things. This is technically correct. (The best kind of correct, right?) > They will amorally advocate for whatever is remotely favorable to the company. This is not (at least, not as universally as you state it). Companies are legal fictions; they do not act on their own. People act. People talk. People believe things. People often amorally advocate for whatever they believe will be most favorable for their employer, or for themselves. People are often wrong. As companies are made up of many people, those people's beliefs and actions don't always match up, so it's still dangerous to talk too carelessly about a given company "believing" any particular thing without qualifiers. Any time someone talks about a company "doing something", they obviously mean that the people within the company did those things, and those people's actions are guided by their individual and collective beliefs. They do not suddenly become perfect automata operating solely for the best interests of the company, without bias of their own, and they certainly don't suddenly become perfectly able to determine what will best serve the interests of the company. |