Comment by lores
9 days ago
If you own an item you want to destroy, no problem. If a company owns an item it want to destroy, it can't anymore. The conflation of persons and corporations has been responsible for an enormous amount of evil, and it's time to start distinguish the two again.
Agree, a corporation can do orders of magnitude more harm than an individual can. It’s called “regulation”.
What evil? I think it would be very hard to have a system of law without corporate personhood. Every time you wanted a law to eg ban x, you would need a separate law for corporations.
A company isn't AI or a bot. It's essentially a group of people. It should have the same rights as an individual when it comes to private property.
Your reasoning makes sense only if it's just as easy to sentence the group to jail time as it is to sentence the individual--and pretty much everything else about a corporation is set up to make it harder to do that.
If it's an unlimited partnership or something, _maybe_. Approximately no companies implicated are, though; they're typically limited liability companies of some sort. A limited liability company demanding human rights feels a bit like having your cake and eating it.
It is not a group of people. It’s a legal entity that represents their economic interests.
There's a sizable logical jump between your second and third statements.
I'm sorry you think that.