[i习作temp] Issue152 [Mettle 7.22] by werecat [复制链接]

Issue152 [Mettle 7.22] by werecat

"The only responsibility of corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, is to make as much money as possible for their companies."


The ultimate goal of each company is to make profit, otherwise they would more likely to establish NGO or something else. Thus as long as their corporate executives manuver within the laws, their major objectives are making as much money as possible. However, we must notice that the term "laws" as mentioned before indicts[指控？] not only the legitimated laws of the country, but also the moral and ethic ones buried in our values.[法律就是法律没有道德的含义吧？还种说法吧！]

No one can deny or demean the importance of conforming to national and international laws. First of all, if any company broke certain laws, they will be punished severely sooner or later. Under the seducing of great profits, some executives may fanaticly adapt the means of smuggling or illegal trades. In short, these actions may render sudden success, however, like the old saying goes: The paper can not withhold fire,【纸包不住火这样表达不太地道吧？】 someday, these evil deeds will be disclothed, then the company will collapsed and the executive will be sentenced especially serious. What's more, given the assumption that the system of some specific laws are not finished and perfected yet, so companies have the chance to sneak through the webs of law. It appeared to be smart at first, but ever since the government apply definite rules, the advantages by playing tricks will vaporized immediately, in total, the companies can not earn much and the executives have the responsibility of leading the company astray.

Moreover, those companies who extract money in the legal but immoral ways can not escape blaming and reproachments. Once upon a period in the past, the slave trades are legal and encouraged in the contemporary laws. Therefore many captains and their galleys worked for so called colony companies voyaged between the oceans to kidnap and sell living people from one place to another. Although we can not charge them as criminals according to the laws of their countries, but everyone has the right to excoriate these notorious men in the name of human ethics. It is true that slave trades made huge profits and even strengthen some countries to some extent, but these activities will be spitted on as long as they are recorded on the history. Still, many companies nowadays flying in the face of current moral standards, for example, in order to reduce the cost of manufacturing, some executives turned their attention to rural areas and wild forests. They bought farmers' lands in a very low price and then sold them in relatively high price in order to increase incomes. Many executives get the authorization from governments somehow to exploit the natural resources unheedingly. Admittedly, their actions are legal under certain laws and supervisings, but the devastating results of their behaviors will not avoid blaming at present and in the future.【这段论述了道德也很重要，例子很好】

In conclusion, we can not deprive executives and their companies of their rights and desires to make profits, but we must put their activities under some restrictions. Judging from the overall situations, it seems that the sole legitimated restraints are not sufficient, therefore we must also put executives and companies under the censorship of moral standards and social ethics as well.