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> This may shock you, but a company is not a person. Corporations are legally treated like people, that is the point actually [1]. Given that they have simila
by bnegreve 4y ago
> This may shock you, but a company is not a person.
Corporations are legally treated like people, that is the point actually [1]. Given that they have similar rights, it is not absurd to expect they also behave like people.
[1] (from wikipedia) A corporation is an organization authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law "born out of statute"; a legal person in legal context) and recognized as such in law for certain purposes.
- prepend 4y agoLegal people aren’t people. This just means that rights given to people also apply to organizations and groups of people. Otherwise the state could say “yes prepend, you have freedom of speech, but the church you belong to can’t say stuff.” Etc etc.
- b112 4y agoNo, corporations are not people, and legalities which apply in very specific circumstances and not relevant. Do you, as a person, have a CTO by law? Have your value listed on a stock exchange? Can you be sold? Dissolved at the whim of the state? A corporation is only a person in a very, very narrow set of conditions.
- bnegreve 4y agoCorporations are granted the right to sue me. That enough for me to expect that they show some level of human decency. If they behave like psychopaths in a systematic way, I don't think they should be granted that right.