:: Corporation : Clinical Diagnosis (PCLR) ::

Clinical diagnosis (PCLR) of personality of corporation. Opinions by Dr. Robert D. Hare, Milton Friedman, Noam Chomsky, Peter Drucker.

Dr. Robert D. Hare is a researcher renowned in the field of criminal psychology. He is professor emeritus of the University of British Columbia where his studies centered on psychopathology and psychophysiology. He developed the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL) and Psychopathy Checklist Revised (PCL-R), used to diagnose cases of psychopathy and also useful in predicting the likelihood of violent behavior. He advises the FBI's Child Abduction and Serial Murder Investigative Resources Center (CASMIRC) and consults for various British and North American prison services.
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Milton Friedman was an American Nobel Laureate economist and public intellectual. An advocate of economic freedom, Friedman made major contributions to the fields of macroeconomics, microeconomics, economic history and statistics. In 1976, he was awarded the Nobel memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy.

According to The Economist, Friedman "was the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century...possibly of all of it."
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Peter Ferdinand Drucker (November 19, 1909--November 11, 2005) was a writer, management consultant and university professor. His writing focused on management-related literature. Peter Drucker made famous the term knowledge worker and is thought to have unknowingly ushered in the knowledge economy, which effectively challenges Karl Marx's world-view of the political economy.

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[suckittrebek619]

They're made up of people, but operate far differently. And regulations aimed at keeping corporations honest in no way infringes on the personal rights of the owners.

Even if I were to buy your assumption that government wants to limit corporate prosperity, it absolutely DOES have that right if it is obtained illegally, used against the state, or if it puts the public in danger.

But this is a moot point, because our government is simply a PR firm for big business

[organysntracey1]

Hmmm... interesting Mr. Friedman. Does that mean, since the supreme court has now defined a corporation as a "person" (and there's no limits on their campaign contributions) we can now hold them responsible? Or is that just for congress to get kickbacks for their lobbying efforts?

[muffl556]

If Obama isn't a Marxist, then Hitler wasn't a Nazi... Obama = big government control = Marxism. He also wants to disarm civilians, which is 100% Marxist just like in China, Russia, Cambodia, Korea etc...

He admits it in his own words and DEEDS, and he still used "Forward" (Vorwärts!) and "Progress" etc as his slogans, the rising sun (New Dawn) is also an ancient occult "marxist" symbol for communism, stop denying reality...

Every corporate psychopath is a Marxist/Statist by definition...

[mikecorbeil]

Just because they might possibly say that they're Marxists, it doesn't mean that it's the truth. They're definitely not Marxists. Obama's supporters in 2008 claimed that he graduated with specialization in Constitutional Law, but he isn't constitutional; that's for sure. Some of them pretend to be Christians, yet there clearly isn't a true ounce of Christianism in them.

A person can claim to be something that he/she isn't.

[muffl556]

They're all ADMITTED Marxists! Ever read books from Obamas "mentor" Zbigniew Brzezinski? The same guy who tried to suppress the publication of the book on psychopathy in government "Ponerology"... Obama himself said his carefully chosen friends were "Marxist Professors" (like Ayers)...

Marxism/Statism is in fact Psychopathy because it promotes a big corporation/government which controls every aspect of our lives.

Obama even used old Marxist slogans and symbols, you're the one who's clueless...

[mikecorbeil]

They aren't Marxists, so the rest of your comment is just more crap from juniors who can only pretend for a very little while to be able to know what they're talking about.

Obama et al aren't Marxists and their reasons for fueling violent gun crimes in Mexico surely has to do with a lot more than only more gun-restriction laws in the US.

[muffl556]

First Obama went to Mexico in 2009 to blame the 2A ie american guns for mexican gun violence...

Then they got caught gun runnin in Op F&F which is a "false flag" conspiracy to create the problem and then offer the solution, which in this case would've been more gun laws in the US...they got caught and failed...

Then they staged Sandy Hook as well and failed again since it was too obvious...

They won't stop staging events/PsyOps as a pretext for more gun control, they're marxist psychopaths.

[DINDRAGON]

Even thougl libertarians tend to be selfish I did not compare them to sociopaths, I compared them to victims of psychopaths since they tend to defend corporations and their cutthroat tactics even when they are victimized by it.

[mikecorbeil]

You're right to point out that Dr Hare too often says, "I can imagine", but while it's annoying, I'm not sure what to make of it. He's essentially saying that he isn't absolutely certain and I think that this is fitting, for he didn't personally evaluate many corporate chiefs. His imagination is founded in reality but he can't speak in precise terms due to not having personally evaluated the many chiefs and other top management. Meanwhile, we can fill in due to the crimes of business.

[mikecorbeil]

We all need to be well informed about what's going on, but the fact surely remains that many corporate employees and stockholders, as well as other citizens, are fooled. It's something the whole population needs to work to remedy one way or another. Changing the cultural, sociological paradigm of being dumbed down, brainwashed, and thereby manipulatable needs to be corrected, but this is a monumental feet to accomplish; seemingly impossible. Critical objectivity? Most don't understand.

[mikecorbeil]

A problem with "singular *legal persona* of the corporation", which, as you say, should be analyze, is lack of a precise definition. Fe, does it refer to the chiefs, top management, or them an all employees and stockholders? Many employees and stockholders are mislead through bs propaganda but the chiefs know what's going on. They're responsible for it all.

When I speak of a corporation being criminal then it's like with govt. Not all employees are wittingly complicit in the crimes. Leaders are

[mikecorbeil]

Corporations, private?

I believe that a corporation isn't a private enterprise. I worked for an engineering firm that was named after the founder, "& Associates". There were no other owners and this was a private firm. With corporations, anyone who wants to invest can buy stocks or shares (or stock options), and the shares are publicly traded, so these aren't private enterprises.

The US Constitution stipulates limitations of govt but also authority on some matters; fe, creation of $.