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15 Apr 2012, 8:38 pm

scubasteve wrote:
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I forget who it was who said, "I'll believe corporations are persons when the state of Texas executes one."


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I would love to have corporations executed (liquidated) as a penalty for serial corporate manslaughter as a part of gross negligence, or falling that more legal measures to enforce collective moral responsibility within a corporation.


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(Well, more accurately they were extradited by Texas to be executed in New York.)


:lmao: I got stick hearing about Eron in Business school classes at university, every time there was talk of CSR, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Finance, & Business Ethics; 9 times of 10 out that company was name dropped :roll:


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16 Apr 2012, 1:44 pm

There was some political chicanery when the 14th Amendment was written and based on that corporations over time have become persons. I would be willing to trade the automatic citizenship just by being born here (also in the 14th), in order to deny personhood to corporations. In both instances history has shown both to be abused.



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16 Apr 2012, 4:26 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SuUzmqBewg[/youtube]


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16 Apr 2012, 4:37 pm

Chipshorter wrote:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SuUzmqBewg[/youtube]


Thank you. That was very, very enlightening.

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16 Apr 2012, 5:09 pm

Person, as a legal term, has a different meaning from person in the colloquial sense. A legal person acts as a single entity, more or less, as far as the law is concerned. The plural form of the legal sense is persons, never people. Nevertheless, I do not think corporate persons should have the same rights as individual human persons. A corporation's rights only come about, in my opinion, from individuals' exercise of their freedom of association.