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| | 20th WCP: A Philosophical Perspective on the Regulation of Business |
 | | Given the inevitability of personal outcomes thus defined, moral approbation, other than as a tool for affecting subsequent behavior, is irrational, because it is implicitly assumed that the person's behavior is the result of a predetermined disposition, rather than a function of his or her free will and rational conscience. |
 | | Personal conduct in this model is judged amorally (i.e., without regard to the moral responsibility that attends the Anglo-American concept of the relationship between free will, human dignity, and moral responsibility), and it follows from this amoral outlook that the relevant objective of punishment under continental law is behavioral conditioning through appropriately-applied incentives and disincentives. |
 | | Corporations function in the amoral realm of business and technology, where it is more appropriate to manipulate incentives and disincentives to achieve public policy objectives, and to apply corrective, rather than simply punitive, sanctions in the event of regulatory transgression. |
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