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But - a corporation is held to be a person. If your left finger pulls the trigger, the whole body is guilty.
by Sisyphus_of_IT 16y ago
But - a corporation is held to be a person. If your left finger pulls the trigger, the whole body is guilty.
- maxharris 16y agoNo. A corporation is only a group of individuals. The individuals that constitute a coroporation have rights, and the corporation is simply a legally optimized recognition of those rights. Remember, rights are negative, in that proper rights can only prohibit one from initiating political force (violence and fraud) against another. Proper rights do not impose obligations on anyone to create anything for anyone else, because that would be a form of slavery. No sensible person has ever claimed that a corporation is the same thing as a person.
- khafra 16y ago> A corporation is only a group of individuals. The wikipedia article on corporate personhood might make some illuminating reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood_debate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood_debate Unless you already know about it, and are minimizing it for rhetorical reasons. When natural persons break criminal law and go to jail, they are deprived of the product of their labor for a period of time. When a corporation breaks the law, whether you want to attribute that to "evil employees" or to an internal incentive structure which encourages profits above legality, some analogue of jailtime makes sense.