"kontiki" wrote in message
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Icebound wrote:
The
current voter-apathy is some western societies might be a serious
symptom
that a significant segment of the population no longer gives a real damn
about their country. (Hell, it can be argued that some significant
number
of corporations don't give a real damn for their country, either, but I
digress.) Of that segment, some tiny deranged portion may harbour real
enmity.

It is not the responsibility of Corporations to "give a real damn for
their country".
Their responsibility is to their stockholders... those who have paid money
for shares
and expect them to be successful and not to lose money. Only individual
citizens are
capable of "giving a damn". It could be argued that those who actually pay
taxes in
this country are shareholders in a similar sense.


The "corporations" reference was a self-admitted digression, but since you
chose to address it:

I would argue that it is very much the responsibility of Corporations to
"give a real damn for their country".

The Nation provides the corporation with workers and with the mechanisms for
raising capital. The Nation's security and police forces provide a
civilized background against which the Corporation can do its business with
some semblance of safety, security, and reasonable expectation of
longevity.... not only to its entity, but to its people, its material, and
its capital. The Nation's network of laws provide displute-settlement
mechanisms to help ensure that the Corporation will not be cheated, and that
help it carry out business in a level playing field. In many cases, the
Corporation has received preferential tax treatment to locate plants in a
particular location to assist local economy.

I would argue that it is very much the responsibility of Corporations to
"give a real damn for their country".