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maus42 | 8 years ago

>A corporation is a moral agent

I otherwise agree, but I don't know if Apple is a moral agent - that discussion will into quite complex philosophical issues. But certainly each individual person making decisions at Apple is a moral agent.

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chii|8 years ago

> But certainly each individual person making decisions at Apple is a moral agent

I am not so sure that's true. If every agent is acting morally, then does the sum of those actions constitute morality? I think so.

Apple has some agents who are not moral agents. I suspect that all corps are like this.

dragonwriter|8 years ago

A “moral agent” is not “an agent that acts according to correct moral principles” but “an agent with the appropriate facilties that morality or immorality can be attributed to it”.

Apple certainly does have agents that are not moral agents (e.g., automatons like Siri), but for a different reason than you suggest.