> A corporation is only a group of individuals. The wikipedia article on corporate personhood might make some illuminating reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wi

> 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.