I think OP is alluding to the fact that often the most severe penalty a legal person could possible be given is a fine. I.e. a slightly lower profit that year.

I think OP is alluding to the fact that often the most severe penalty a legal person could possible be given is a fine. I.e. a slightly lower profit that year. And that could be seen as a cost of doing business, nothing disruptive. Compare that to saying that an organization is a bunch of individually liable people. Now you can take away their freedom, or deport, or whatever. Much more at stake for the physical people making the actual decisions.