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If the oath of office isn't something we hold a politician to, then we might as well just install kings who can hand out public funds to their friends or spend it on their own pleasures, without accountability, and who exercise increasing control with no regard to our rights. Which is pretty much the direction we're headed.

… if a high-ranking government official is absent, dead, or comatose, the society will still continue along productively.

But the same logic doesn't apply to a high-ranking corporate official?

In a contractual government, it wouldn't matter. All that would matter is whether or not the office holder had fulfilled the terms of his or her contract without going over budget.

Be faithless to people and lie to them and betray their trust?

At the drop of a hat.

Come off it. The guy screwed up. Like Don said: He never presented himself as better or wiser than anyone else. He screwed up and it's no one's business.

And, exactly what do we do, what do we think, when there is no difference?

"But the same logic doesn't apply to a high-ranking corporate official?
Posted by: Martin Brock | Jun 28, 2009 12:34:58 PM"

"Although I believe that corporate officials of any rank generally are far more socially productive than are even the highest-ranking government official, I've never known a society to be endangered by the sudden disappearance, death, or retirement of any corporate official.
Posted by: Don Boudreaux | Jun 28, 2009 12:50:50 PM"

A corporation is a corporation is a corporation, and by any other name should smell so sweet.

Fill a pot with cold water, stick your hand in, then pull your hand out. The hole you leave behind is the hole that will be left when Bill Gates dies, Steven Jobs dies, when Putin dies, Obama dies, that was left when Kennedy died, and when you and I die.

Somehow when a person, and person, exits this vale of tears, the rest of us just soldier on.

Should have read, ….any person, exits this vale of……

Anyone who holds themselves out as a savior or messiah should be cast out into the dustbin of history.

To me infidelity is an egregious character flaw. This crack in character was exceeded by the greater sin which was that the chief executive of a state could not be located for a period of time.

Some say: we simply need to find the "right people" to be our leaders. I say: why not avoid placing so much trust (and power) in their hands?

And, exactly what do we do, what do we think, when there is no difference?

My statement here refers to discussion of Don's previous post.

On the one hand, in this post, the sudden disappearance, death, or retirement of a particular corporate official has no very dire consequences, because this official is only one person.

On the other hand, in the previous post, one corporate official can contribute tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in value to the corporation in a single year, as much as a thousand other employees combined, because his unique contribution is so rare and valuable.

These assertions seem inconsistent to me.

"such a paragon of virtue that he or she can be trusted with vast swaths of our lives and property"

Looks like Edwards is being accused of a sex tape on top of all the rest… http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/06/28/2009-06-28_aides_tale_of_john_edwards_sex_tape.html

Sanford, please don't have a sex tape.