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On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 22:40:28 GMT, Joe62
<jmcgin...@radicalREALLYNOSPAM.ca> wrote:

>On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 00:19:29 -0500, erimess wrote:
>
>>So to say that we shouldn't give the same rights to corporations as we
>>do to people is basically saying we shouldn't give the same rights to
>>stockholders as we do to people.  
>
>>Stockholders ARE people.  So
>>you're saying we shouldn't give the same rights to SOME people as we
>>do to OTHER people?  They're all people.
>
>Nope, I'm saying coporations should not have the same rights as
>people. Stockholders have their own rights as humans. But because they
>choose to invest some of their money into a corporate *system*, that
>system should therefore have the same rights as living breathing
>people? It's absurd to speak of corporate "rights" at all, the very
>concept is illogical. A corporation is a system of manmade rules.
>Nothing more nothing less. It is neither good nor bad; it is by
>definition amoral.

Show me where I said the *corporation* itself had the rights of a
human being.  The concept *is* illogical.  You have all missed the
point of my entire argument.  See post to Bateau.

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erimess

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I feel better already.