I quote Rick Bennett’s Bull Moose Review: “Recalling the World Before Wal-Mart” (April 10): “Wal-Mart is neither good nor bad – it has no morality. Only human beings can have morality and ethics.”

When I was in college I remember being told that groups have a personality. Due to my inexperience, I thought “No! Groups cannot have a personality.” Later when I became a teacher and worked with groups I realized how wrong I was.

Rick Bennett believes corporations don’t have morals or ethics. I believe that if they don’t, they should. Some person or persons who have management positions in every corporation make very important decisions that determine how that corporation will be run. How will the employees be treated? What will they be paid? Will they have health benefits, a retirement program? Will unions be encouraged or fought? Will children and illegal aliens be put to work? Will manufacturing be moved overseas for cheaper labor? How will those employees be treated? Do they make a living wage? Do they have health benefits?

These are the questions I would like to see answered by the corporation known as Wal-Mart.

To drill for oil in the wilderness of Alaska, or leave it pristine the way God gave it to us? This decision, if left to corporations, would be to drill – there might be a profit, although that is debatable. It is a moral and ethical decision.

Nancy Willard, Woodstock