I am much more concerned about decisions that let big money buy elections. Democracy is based on each of us having an equal vote. Here lately the number of votes is tied to how much money you can spend on your pet bias. Companies are not people. Will it soon be illegal to kill a business?
Corporations have always to some extent been treated as legal persons, as is suggested by their name. I do not understand why this convenient legal fiction upsets the left so.-However, I suppose that someone who has trouble with that concept could reasonably also have difficulty understanding why we might have a privacy interest in the contents of our cell phones.
Folks DO realize that individuals, like doctors and lawyers, have themselves declared “corporations” specifically so that they aren’t subject to criminal or tort litigation they’d be subject to as individual “persons”, right?
Michael Peterson Premium Member almost 10 years ago
And here I thought conservatives were in favor of limiting government and preserving individual rights.
Theodore E. Lind Premium Member almost 10 years ago
I am much more concerned about decisions that let big money buy elections. Democracy is based on each of us having an equal vote. Here lately the number of votes is tied to how much money you can spend on your pet bias. Companies are not people. Will it soon be illegal to kill a business?
TripleAxel almost 10 years ago
Corporations have always to some extent been treated as legal persons, as is suggested by their name. I do not understand why this convenient legal fiction upsets the left so.-However, I suppose that someone who has trouble with that concept could reasonably also have difficulty understanding why we might have a privacy interest in the contents of our cell phones.
Dtroutma almost 10 years ago
Folks DO realize that individuals, like doctors and lawyers, have themselves declared “corporations” specifically so that they aren’t subject to criminal or tort litigation they’d be subject to as individual “persons”, right?