Re: Request to remove Information
On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 09:06 +0000, Adam Funk wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 22:31 -0500, C Shore wrote:
> >> On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 06:49:03PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> >> > Edward J. Shornock wrote:
> >> > > I beg to differ. I, at least, am trying to avoid ending up living in
> >> > > a cardboard box or milking social services.
> >> >
> >> > And the corporations are trying to prevent from folding. BTW, you
> >> > do
> >> > realize that corporations are nothing more than individuals just like
> >> > you.
> >>
> >> That's a load of crap perpetuated by lawyers. A coporation is not
> >> person in any reasonable definition of the word.
> >
> > I *think* he means that corporations nothing more than *groups*
> > of individual people, and thus any nefarious deeds done by corp-
> > orations are really done by individuals.
>
> ...who can thus avoid proper accountability for their actions.
Sure. Security in number, omerta, loyalty to the clan, etc.
That's totally irrelevant to the point, though, is that The
Corporation doesn't have a mind, independent actions, etc.
Whether it's Michael Corleone says "It's not personal, Sonny.
It's strictly business.", or Reinhold Heydrich ordering the murder
of millions and then going home and playing the violin, or a CEO
cooking the books, or an assembly-line worker doing a shitty job,
it's *people* who do the deeds, whether good or ill.
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