Corporate Amorality Debate

Companies don't have morals, they have interests. You're just being realistic.

It’s a huge corporation, and huge corporations are morally challenged.

He probably meant amoral. Companies are constructs, machines, outside of morality. They just do. Their leaders can be moral or not.

Individuals need better morals imo. The corporate entries of this works however do everything for the benefit of the share holder which isn’t always the right moral thing.

Every large company is, by nature, amoral. All the pro-social stances or whatever are generally just window dressing and PR. Individuals can be moral, but for-profit corporations past a certain size just are too abstract of an entity with too many people of competing interests to ascribe morality to. We shouldn't care about intentions, just whether they're doing something we agree with or not.

Aren't companies "moral entities" by definition?

That is depressing. Companies are nothing but collection of human beings. One would hope that most humans are not happy to go about their lives lying to other humans on a regular basis.So yes, companies don't have a moral point of view. But human beings do, the humans who work for and run these companies. And while philosophers have opined extensively about the relativity of morals, I'd hope that there are some values that an overwhelming majority of human kind subscribes to.

If you’re going to bank on this view enough to harp on about “amoral companies” in your HN bio, I implore you to consider a more nuanced view. I am a company director. If I committed a “moral” act in this capacity, your absolutist claim is entirely false.

No company can be expected to behave morally? Is that what you are arguing?

Companies are inherently non moral, non sentient, legal constructs. Any sense of morality comes from the people in the company, and they can be highly moral, immoral, or anything in between.