Civil disobedience is appropriate for individuals, not institutions.
Think of it this way: Ought it be the role of corporations to decide what laws are evil and what laws to follow, or should that it be the role of judges and elected officials to nullify and repeal them? I would rather put the responsibility (and blame) on the latter, not MBA's responding to short-term shareholder interests.
This is the same knee-jerk idiocy as to the Kindle's DRM issue: Amazon is not an institution equipped to decide on the morality of DRM. They're an institution designed to maximize shareholder value. Let the elected officials decide questions of morality, and let the corporations decide how to organize individuals into profit-maximizing groups.
Civil disobedience is appropriate for individuals, not institutions.
You say this, yet oddly you you seem to put little moral weight on individual actions.
If an institution collectively performs an act that is evil, and the law does not act to punish it, do you truly place no responsibility on the individuals who participated? An institution cannot act except via the individuals who comprise it. Diffusion of responsibility is anathema to a moral society; great evil can be performed on behalf of institutions by "good" people when it isn't their "responsibility".
The reality, of course, is that people usually rationalize their way out of being complicit in evil, and in any case are almost never held responsible for their participation, but I don't often hear people promoting that as a good thing!
Civil disobedience is appropriate for individuals, not institutions.
Think of it this way: Ought it be the role of corporations to decide what laws are evil and what laws to follow, or should that it be the role of judges and elected officials to nullify and repeal them? I would rather put the responsibility (and blame) on the latter, not MBA's responding to short-term shareholder interests.
This is the same knee-jerk idiocy as to the Kindle's DRM issue: Amazon is not an institution equipped to decide on the morality of DRM. They're an institution designed to maximize shareholder value. Let the elected officials decide questions of morality, and let the corporations decide how to organize individuals into profit-maximizing groups.