1. In the documentary film, The Corporation, the six symptoms of psychopathy taken from the World Health Organization’s Manual of Mental Disorders, were applied to the corporate world today. One by one, the documentary listed all six symptoms and began to check off each symptom that the corporation world is presenting. All six symptoms were checked, proving that the corporate “person” today could rightly be diagnosed with the mental disorder of Psychopathy. The six symptoms that the corporate form is displaying are as follows: callous unconcern for the feelings of others, the incapacity to maintain enduring relationships, reckless discard for safety of others, deceitfulness in the form of repeated ling and conning others for profit, the incapacity
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Nilsen suggests five attitudes that he deems necessary for ethical interpersonal communication. They are to show respect for a person regardless of age, relationship to the speaker, and status, to respect another persons ideas, feelings, intentions, and their integrity, to show objectivity and open-mindedness that will foster freedom of expression, to respect the rational weighing of alternative ideas and to practice careful and sincere listening before taking a position. These five attitudes that Nilsen recommends stands in stark contrast to the six symptoms of Psychopathy that corporations are presenting. The corporations are behaving unethically when measuring them against Nilsen’s ethics of interpersonal communication. As a result of meeting the six symptoms, corporations do not show respect for or value another’s feelings because, as symptom one states, they show no concern for the feelings of others. No respect for a person is shown in the fact that corporations cannot maintain enduring relationships, as the documentary mentions they move from one country to the next in search of new workers to make their product for less …show more content…
Continuing to fail these guidelines, they demonstrate no willingness to listen, which is proven by symptom 5, feeling no guilt, as they tune out every harmful accusation and truism by justifying their need to make a profit, failing Nilsen’s guidelines. In addition, while meeting the criteria needed for Psychopathy, corporations are failing the guidelines William Rawlin’s advocates for ethical interpersonal communication as well. He focuses on four topics: openness, privacy, protection, and deception. He believes openness is not without limits and is not the need to be transparent. Corporations are neither open nor transparent in their communication, The Corporation documentary speaks of major companies functioning completely separate from society, not including the betterment of society in any of their major plans and goals. At first glance, one would think that corporations meet Rawlin’s view on privacy; however, Rawlin’s differentiates between privacy and secrecy. Rawlin’s believes that privacy protects morally neutral and positive behavior, while secrets hide something negatively viewed. The documentary speaks on corporations failing to conform to societies laws, symptom 6. In failing to conform, corporations are not open and honest about their criminal behavior. Rather, they conceal them through secrecy, which Rawlin’s speaks
Nilsen suggests five attitudes that he deems necessary for ethical interpersonal communication. They are to show respect for a person regardless of age, relationship to the speaker, and status, to respect another persons ideas, feelings, intentions, and their integrity, to show objectivity and open-mindedness that will foster freedom of expression, to respect the rational weighing of alternative ideas and to practice careful and sincere listening before taking a position. These five attitudes that Nilsen recommends stands in stark contrast to the six symptoms of Psychopathy that corporations are presenting. The corporations are behaving unethically when measuring them against Nilsen’s ethics of interpersonal communication. As a result of meeting the six symptoms, corporations do not show respect for or value another’s feelings because, as symptom one states, they show no concern for the feelings of others. No respect for a person is shown in the fact that corporations cannot maintain enduring relationships, as the documentary mentions they move from one country to the next in search of new workers to make their product for less …show more content…
Continuing to fail these guidelines, they demonstrate no willingness to listen, which is proven by symptom 5, feeling no guilt, as they tune out every harmful accusation and truism by justifying their need to make a profit, failing Nilsen’s guidelines. In addition, while meeting the criteria needed for Psychopathy, corporations are failing the guidelines William Rawlin’s advocates for ethical interpersonal communication as well. He focuses on four topics: openness, privacy, protection, and deception. He believes openness is not without limits and is not the need to be transparent. Corporations are neither open nor transparent in their communication, The Corporation documentary speaks of major companies functioning completely separate from society, not including the betterment of society in any of their major plans and goals. At first glance, one would think that corporations meet Rawlin’s view on privacy; however, Rawlin’s differentiates between privacy and secrecy. Rawlin’s believes that privacy protects morally neutral and positive behavior, while secrets hide something negatively viewed. The documentary speaks on corporations failing to conform to societies laws, symptom 6. In failing to conform, corporations are not open and honest about their criminal behavior. Rather, they conceal them through secrecy, which Rawlin’s speaks