How is this diesel-scandal the fault of the whole company and not of a few people who actively engaged in wrongdoings?! Isn't this the whole reason for the inv

How is this diesel-scandal the fault of the whole company and not of a few people who actively engaged in wrongdoings?! Isn't this the whole reason for the invention of limited companies in the first place? It's considered a progress in human society to have developed limited liability laws. Besides, the good thing about not killing juristic persons is also true for not killing natural persons - it's considered an improvement by and large if a society gets rid of the medieval practice of executing prisoners.