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re: Are corporations people?

Posted on 3/22/17 at 10:15 am to
Posted by buckeye_vol
Member since Jul 2014
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Posted on 3/22/17 at 10:15 am to
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This notion that "corporations are people" is a laughable logically fallacy.
Not really. It's just given the entity certain rights and responsibilities. It is comprised of individuals, who have rights, but a random indivdual's view isn't inferred to be the view of the entire entity. But if a company makes some political statement, the government can't censor it under the guise of not having rights. Therefore, it has rights to do such things.
This post was edited on 3/22/17 at 10:16 am
Posted by LSU2a
SWLA to Dallas
Member since Aug 2012
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Posted on 3/22/17 at 12:19 pm to
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Not really. It's just given the entity certain rights and responsibilities


The statement "corporations are people" is both a logical fallacy and a practical falsehood. You can neither apply the attributes of a person to a corporation nor apply the atributes of a corporation to a person. Simply because certain rights apply to persons does not mean you can attribute those rights to a corporation.
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It is comprised of individuals, who have rights, but a random indivdual's view isn't inferred to be the view of the entire entity.


You keep making an argument based on a well established logical fallacy. I guess we should allow corporations as a singular entity to serve as jurors, adopt children, marry, vote, etc.

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But if a company makes some political statement, the government can't censor it under the guise of not having rights. Therefore, it has rights to do such things.


People have rights, corporations are not people. Your entire argument keeps devolving into the same fallacy. A logical equivalence is to say "all people must eat to survive, thus a corporation must eat to survive."

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