So how does one define corporate responsibility? While there are many examples of blatent irresponsability (love cannal, enron, worldcom) what about others like boeing who routinely goes through massive hiring and firing binges every couple years, or any oil company, any power company, or even the United States government. In terms of the legal system in the united states a company is treated as a single individual and subject to the same consitutionally protected rights as a single individual. In light of how so many companies work should we re-evaluate this treatment because a company can affect so many people's lives and forever change a location, and even the economy? We think of all the laws that protect the individual from a company but when it eventually boils down to it even those in reality create means to protect a company. In fact companies have so much power that every law created is somehow being pushed by and probably fought by several comapnies. The small guy can be so easily crushed beneith the wheels of the money machines that we can only hope that someone up somewhere realizes the damage they can cause and fight internally from doing so. Without sounding socialist I would venture to say that companies should feel obliged to use a certain percentage of their profits to do pure science and comunity service. If a company can be considered an individual the prime focus should be survival and the only way to survive for the long term is take care of those that take care of you, betterment of the human race is the only way the species is to survive and hence the only way the company will survive, why waste our future before we ever get to it?