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All of those things have direct comparisons to the individual death penalty or other pre-existing laws. A human could be put to death even if they have a famil

All of those things have direct comparisons to the individual death penalty or other pre-existing laws. A human could be put to death even if they have a family to support, so the workers argument is settled. The only issue is the matter of scale, but the death penalty is pretty rare to begin with, and I would expect a corporate death penalty have even stricter requirements. They don't have to close a transnational, they can just force them to stop doing business in the country. They can close their US operations and ban their imports. We already have import bans on companies, countries, and products. For subsidiaries, it would depends on how far up the chain the crime went. If Opel committed the crime but GM didn't know, Opel dies. If GM knew, GM dies. You could likely even spin off the "innocent" subsidiaries. If a husband commits a crime and the wife was not involved, the wife doesn't go to jail. If they both did it but their children were not involved, the children don't go to jail, they go to live with another set of parents.

loceng 10y ago
They probably wouldn't pay the $15B fine if they weren't allowed to sell cars in the U.S. anymore..
imron 10y ago
The only issue is the matter of scale You're not wrong, but this is also the same argument your parent post was making, namely that it will have a large scale negative effect on many regions.
Scarblac 10y ago
I feel it's a bit strange to argue for corporate death penalty by comparing it to individual death penalty, given how controversial the individual death penalty is.
- freehunter 10y ago
  It should be, they both should be very controversial. But it easier to argue for a corporate death penalty than it is for a corporate "life in prison" because both of those things look exactly the same.
ATsch 10y ago
In this case, VW claims they didn't know either, it was those pesky employees that put it in there "for some reason", and any evidence to the contrary probably does not exist anymore if there was any. So VW would be innocent in your case?

loceng 10y ago

They probably wouldn't pay the $15B fine if they weren't allowed to sell cars in the U.S. anymore..

imron 10y ago

The only issue is the matter of scale You're not wrong, but this is also the same argument your parent post was making, namely that it will have a large scale negative effect on many regions.

Scarblac 10y ago

I feel it's a bit strange to argue for corporate death penalty by comparing it to individual death penalty, given how controversial the individual death penalty is.

freehunter 10y ago
It should be, they both should be very controversial. But it easier to argue for a corporate death penalty than it is for a corporate "life in prison" because both of those things look exactly the same.

ATsch 10y ago

In this case, VW claims they didn't know either, it was those pesky employees that put it in there "for some reason", and any evidence to the contrary probably does not exist anymore if there was any. So VW would be innocent in your case?