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jsbowden ([personal profile] jsbowden) wrote2010-03-04 02:35 pm
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Question for you legal types...

Now that we've decided that corporations are actual people, can we start prosecuting them and killing them when their stupid policies result in killing either their customers or employees (and said corp. can be shown to have known this was a potential outcome and chose not to mitigate it, because hey, we can't keep our shareholders from earning that extra $0.001 per share, now can we)?

[identity profile] prince-corwin.livejournal.com 2010-03-04 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
If by "now," you mean "over a century ago," the answer appears to be yes, provided you can fit the corporation in the gas chamber without harming any individual not listed in the lawsuit.