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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing America that freedom for corporations equates to freedom for individuals.

• ars 16y ago
  Corporation are MADE of individuals. A corporation is not a person and does not think. There is an actual human on the other end, and it is that human to whom you are giving that freedom. People have a tendency to anthropomorphize corporations. A corporation did this, wants that, etc.
  • DanI-S 16y ago
    Collections of individuals don't act with the same motivations and ethics as individuals, so they shouldn't have the same rights.
  • bootload 16y ago
    "... Corporation are MADE of individuals. ^A corporation is not a person^ and does not think. ..." Yes they are. "... In the United States, corporations were recognized as having rights to contract, and to have those contracts honored the same as contracts entered into by natural persons, in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, decided in 1819. In the 1886 case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, 118 U.S. 394, the Supreme Court recognized that corporations were recognized as persons for purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment. ..." ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation#United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation#United_States A dubious outcome in what was meant in spirit to uphold a person's (black or white) civil and political rights being interfered by any state. cf: 14th amendment ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Citizenship_and_civil_rights http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_Uni...