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osamanobama said:
bannedagain said:

I will end this now because of your thought of corporations being people. They are not and where born in a lawyers office. Already clear to see we will not see eye to eye.. Corporations own our politicians because of this ruling. It has nothing to do with the first amendment. SO peace.

 


so wha are they, robots?

Corporations are not people.  They are artifically created entities whose structure is defined by law, that enables the owners to not be liable for the things they own do.  If they were people, then they could vote, and get arrested and go to jail when they do wrong.  And in this structure, when they collectively do evil, no single person gets singled out and dealt with.  You can have a corporation end up doing things that harm and kill people, that if an individual did it, they would go to jail, but with a corporation, no one does.  In other legal structures, if an entity owners had did something wrong, the owner would be fined, go to jail for negliegence.  This is not the case with corporations, particularly publically traded ones.

And you have other things that don't happen with individuals.  Individuals die.  When they die, and are the holder of IP, the IP goes into public domain. Because corporations hold the rights to IP, they never die and the intellectual property never goes into the public domain.

I also haven't seen a corporation eat, fall in love, get married, use a toilet, have to go to the hospital, send their kids to school or anything.  Exactly what DO corporations do that is human?