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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 03:29 PM EST |
The current situation where it extends to buying politicians and entering into
cover-ups and collusion is exactly the opposite...
Not true, not true at all. Many people apparently feel a great need to buy
politicians, collude, and cover-up things.
This is true of individuals acting on their own, but also of churches (covering
up child abuse), unions (covering up most anything involving fraud, corruption,
or violence), universities (covering up child abuse in the athletic department
or rich fraternities), nonprofits (covering up embezzlement by officers),
political parties (covering up anything people will do to each other--not to
mention small furry animals).
Focus on only one kind of association, as if that is more evil than any other,
is an extremely malicious route to social suicide, in the name of a
less-than-dubious political expediency.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 04:10 PM EST |
"Unfortunately, what was a good idea 125 years ago has become hopelessly
corrupted. Like patents, that had a good intent originally, but which today are
almost 180 degrees from the intent."
I don't disagree with this statement. However, trying to fix it now without a
full understanding of how it got to where it is and why risks doing more harm
than good.
Most of the people advocating for an outright repeal/elimination of corporate
personhood don't have that understanding.
In the beginning, corporate personhood was a legal fiction used strictly for the
purposes of standing before the courts for contract and tort law. Returning to
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