Can a company be *evil*?

You hear the idea all the time. Evil companies. Even "evil corporate America." The Bible says that the love of money is the root of all evil, and surely nobody loves money more than a big company, whose sole reason to exist is to make money.... WAIT! Hold up a minute here? Are companies people? Can they be an "anybody"? Of course not! Therefore, a company is simply a collection of individuals. A company cannot be evil.

Oh wait, it can't be that simple either. If it was, Google's motto wouldn't be "Don't Be Evil" (though they're often called an evil company (you know, the evil companies list everyone seems to have - Monsanto, Microsoft, Google, etc). There are lots of books and documentaries on this concept. Lords Of The Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, And The Future Of Food, The World According to Monsanto (US NTSC Format), Competition, Innovation and the Microsoft Monopoly: Antitrust, Tinker Belles and Evil Queens: The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out, The I Hate Corporate America Reader: How Big Companies from McDonald's to Microsoft Are Destroying Our Way of Life (The "I Hate" Series), and many more (those were just titles I found in a quick Amazon search, they all look interesting but I haven't read them).

It's your call... I don't have an opinion this time. I will form one. I put this idea out there for a future blog post I'll be writing. I'm not sure if a company, as a whole, can be composed of such corrupt people to truly, itself (rather than just some of the individuals in it), be evil. What do you think?