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Businesses are not people and shouldn’t have the same rights. Hard no from me on the concept of corporate personhood.

• krapp 4y ago
  You don't believe businesses should have the right to free speech, because they are not a person. Fair enough. Do you believe religious groups should have the right to free speech? Religion isn't a person. If not free speech, what about the right of assembly? What about the press? The press isn't a person, either. What about political parties? What about your family? What is the limit? Two people? Four? How many people does one need to gather together under common interests before their rights are nullified, and replaced by some other set of rights governing "entities" like businesses, religions, political parties, etc? There's a very good reason the First Amendment refers to "the people" and not individual persons - because it makes no sense to deny the existence of rights in aggregate. Yes, the press has rights, despite being an abstract entity, because it - along with religious groups, political parties and businesses, represent collections of people, and thus is synonymous with the rights of the sum of the individuals making up those entities.