[alistairSH]

"Viewing corporations as amoral bots..."

How else should we view them? Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, probably a duck.

Nobody justified the behavior, only stated that corporations have proven over time to generally seek profits over all else. They provide legal cover to bad-faith actions. That wasn't the original intention, but it is absolutely the current state of the world.

[joquarky]

Publically traded companies are inherently aligned with the traits of psychopathy.

[wat10000]

They are exactly the Paperclip Maximizer thought experiment, except it's dollars (or euros or whatever) instead of paperclips.