RE: A Blunt way to fuck Americans.
March 2, 2012 at 3:03 pm
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2012 at 3:04 pm by Mister Agenda.)
Good analogy. Soylent Green is people because it's made of people. Corporations (and unions, and so forth) are people because they're made of people. However, a corporation isn't a person (and a can of Soylent Green isn't a person) and the law is not based on it being one. It is based on the principle that denying a group of people something is not fundamentally different from denying it to the individuals who make up the group. That is, it's hard to take away a right from a group without taking the right away from the members of the group in the process.
The legal fiction of a corporation 'being a person' is based on treating it as an entity that can be sued and that can own stuff. All the people in a corporation can be changed and the property of the corporation remains the corporation's and it is still liable for things that happened when it had totally different people in it.
The legal fiction of a corporation 'being a person' is based on treating it as an entity that can be sued and that can own stuff. All the people in a corporation can be changed and the property of the corporation remains the corporation's and it is still liable for things that happened when it had totally different people in it.
