Government vs. Business

The greatest social plagues in human history have been the result of intolerant, exclusivist ideologies: Crusades, Nazism, Communism, Triumphalism, Imperialism (some but not all), Islamism, Separatism and anti-separatism, despotism, and many more. The greatest triumphs in human history have been the result of inclusivist, human nature exploiting ideologies and movements. Intensive agriculture, democracy, capitalism, advanced medicine, literacy and printing

Maybe the difference is one of human perception. Those events that we consider bad are those that tended to produce unhappiness, disease, and failed to produce human progress. Those events and ideas we consider good are those that tended to produce happiness, healthfulness, and human progress. To some degree, we also tend to consider those ideologies that attempt to impose themselves upon an unwilling population, bad. There are exceptions; racial tolerance, for example, was essentially foisted upon a contentedly intolerant populace via a civil war and governmental regulation. Very few people would argue that racial tolerance is a plague.