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Comment by TacticalCoder

6 hours ago

As the owner of a moral person (a company), I disagree.

There are even weirder stuff than companies being considered a "moral person". For example if a person speeds way too much in France (say more than 50 kilometers/hour above the speed limit on the highway, e.g. 180 km/h // 111 mph instead of the 130 km/h // 80 mph)... Well then that person gets arrested. And his driving license is confiscated on the spot. But here's the absolute crazy thing: even if the car belong to someone else, to a company, to a rental company... Doesn't matter: the French state consider that the car itself was complicit in the act. So the car is seized too (for 8 days if it doesn't belong to the person who was driving it and potentially much more if it does belong to the person driving it).

Companies are persons and cars (I'm not even talking about self-driving cars) have rights and obligations. That's the world we live in.

"Company" is a generic collective noun. "Corporation" is the legal term directly referencing a constructed singular entity with a corpus/body to be treated like a natural person.