• MrShankles@reddthat.com
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    9 months ago

    If a corporation has legal rights as if it were a person, why aren’t they punished like everyone else?

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      9 months ago

      We execute people for committing multiple murders. A corporation can kill hundreds or thousands of people with their pollution or their emissions or whatever else they are doing to skirt regulations and get slapped with a fine far smaller than their profits.

    • JargonWagon@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Because, like wealthy people, wealthy corporations just get a slap on the wrist rather than be made an example of.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Because a corporation is just a group of people and punishing the corporation and calling it a day would allow those people actually responsible to get away with it.