Corporations Cause all the Problems

1. Falling off cliffs Perhaps no one asked them to place any barriers in first place. That would be the likely reason why. It is not a corporation's decision to place barriers all along cliffs, that would be the decision of the owner. Let's take the Grand Canyon for example. There are not a lot of barriers around it because no one asked for barriers to be placed there. Thus the responsibility of one's death lies in the hands of the owner. 2. Forgetfulness Actually it is not a corporation's fault. Humans need to only remember necessary information not just random stuff they see on TV. If you see a commercial made by a corporation about advertising for a new cell phone it may be funny and that is how you react to it, but that is it so usually the information given to us by a corporation is usually what is forgotten first because it is not necessary. Would you rather remember a commercial for hot dogs or the fact that you need to take your dog to the vet? A corporation cannot organized your life for you by simply producing things. Otherwise you would just sit there and wait for your life to be organized. No disorganization can be caused by stress at a job, but that is it. Disorganization can also when let's say a relative dies and that is not a corporation's fault. A corporation's job is not to make your organized it is to make and sell products. Sure they may sell something that may help you become more organized, but it is overall your choice if you wish to buy it or not. Corporations can influence people to buy it, but if everyone was influenced everyone would buy that object and I don't think everyone in the world owns that same object, let's say the object is a folder. If anything it helps people get organized, but people may not always want a folder. 3. Viruses Not all wages come from corporations. What if you work for a small business? What if you work for the government? What if you don't want a job and live on welfare? So no this entire problem is not completely genuine to corporations so it is not entirely a corporation's fault. Also what about countries where healthcare is free? You would not have to purchase anything at all. Many country's with free healthcare have problems with people getting treated with whatever problem they have [1]. So in other words perhaps people in those countries die because they do not get treated in time and that is not a corporation's fault. Since most of these nations have a government-run healthcare system. 4. Alcohol/drug addiction You choose to drink or not. Many people do not drink alcohol. I have also found out that are people that do home brew their own beer. I found that it is legal in 15 countries. In the United States, the states largely decide if they want it legalized and some do [2]. As a matter of fact my previous link proved why people people do get addicted to alcohol and drugs. My opponent tried to counter by saying the reason why was because corporations offer than choices, but I just found out corporations are not completely responsible for this problem in the world as I have found out about home brewing. So my opponent said first, " The real problem is the fact that people have that choice in the first place." and then he said, " the overall problem of alcohol and drug addiction remains fundamentally premised on the existance of alcohol and drugs, both of which are provided by corporations." so my opponent contradicted himself here. First saying the main problem was he fact that people have the choice to and then he said the main problem is that they exist. Choice and existence are two different things so he contradicted himself. I proved corporations are not causing the entire problem because of the existence of home brewing. Also remember that wine for example is produced in a vineyard which is not a corporation, a vineyard is a plantation. So if anyone could be blamed for its existence it would be its makers who work at vineyard [3]. It is one's choice to make wine in the first place so wine is made by individuals. Also lets say you have the choice to buy something because its there being sold by a corporation. That sounds ludicrous first off anyway which is we what my opponent is saying. People become alcoholics because its there. This is wrong. Just because a boat is being sold those not mean people while by the boat because it is there. In fact more proof that people have a choice would be when they don't buy something and thus a corporation has to take that object off the market because it is not making a profit. This shows that people have a choice which is the same with alcohol. In health classes we also learn the main reason people drink or use drugs is because of peer pressure from friends and that is a fact. So no, just because its there being sold from corporations does not mean you will become addicted to it. You are made to drink from personal issues and in fact people who have personal issues may not drink, but may fine something else to do to make a the pain go away. Its all in their choice. 5. Sea Disasters The following disasters at sea were caused by people doing the wrong thing. These crashes have nothing to do with machines, but have to do with their drivers. In the first video the info says that the guy driving the boat hit the wave at the wrong angle causing the disaster. In the second one the person crashed into the docks. In a third two people were driving and rammed into each other. So as you can see boat crashes and ship crashes a like are the fault of humans and these smaller boats are probably not owned by corporations. These boats need a crew to drive. After all someone needs to work a computer right? So as wee see from these videos this is proof not all boat accidents are caused by corporations. 6. Obesity Here is why obesity is not a problem created completely by corporations. Corporations are not causing the entire problem first off. Small businesses might cause this problem to with the food they sell, it all depends on what you as an individual prefer to eat. Many people don't eat places like fast food restaurants and eat at other places. There are some factors in weight gain that people may not be able to control over. For example, you cannot control an illness that may cause weight gain or maybe pre-existing factors like genetics cause it. The simplest reason why we gain weight is because you may not monitor your calorie intake and it is not a corporation's job to monitor it for you [4]. 7. War Many totalitarian regimes produce their own weapons in the world and these usually tend to be third world companies, but sometimes nations like China also make their own weapons. So corporations are not building all the weapons for all the nations of the world and thus they are not completely at fault. 8. Murder Corporations do not control every wary people express. Let's look at Amish people for example. Amish live in their own societies where usually corporations are not and thus they do not control the way the Amish express themselves. What about in communist nations where corporations are not allowed? What about in impoverished nations where there may not be corporations. In fact people kill people for a reason, they are not just going to kill someone. You usually have a reason to kill someone. Maybe you are a racist and usually racism is cause by how you are brought up, then you kill someone. So in conclusion corporation do not cause every single problem. 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