At 04:51 AM 07/04/00 -0400, Tom Vogt wrote: >Tim May wrote: >> >if you are a company, then going bancrupt is the equivalence of dying. >> >someone threatening you - overt or implied - with driving you out of >> >business is the equivalent of a murder threat, right? >> >> You're being foolish. > >explain that to the 10k people who lost a job at my hypothetical >company. or the stockholders, who lost their money. Show me the corpse, so I can give condolences to the widow/widower/orphans. >on more factual terms, AFAIK corporations have a certain status in the >US, almost that of a natural person. why exactly is using the term >"death" foolish in this context? Show me the corpse. Show me the gravestone. Show me why I should grant unalienable/inalienable rights to an intangible that is formed and dissolved by a government edict (and duly issued license), when this is properly reserved to real persons rather than entities that cannot cry, laugh or walk a dog, in person. Corporations do not have the same status as a US citizen, in any of several, if not dozens of areas. If you are unaware of this, then you are obviously unaware of the US Bill of Rights, and other elements of the US Constitution. >rtmark, for example, once made the >suggestion that a corporation (not a specific one) should be sentenced >to death by a court, if it commits crimes that would have resulted in a >death sentence had a person done it. rtmark? Is this a controlling, legal authority, or an opinion from a competing corporation? Authority? US authority as opinions of rules and laws in other countries as well. Your point? >I'm not the first to use this >expression. must by my "socialist gene". :) More likely, your unoriginal, copycat gene. Lemming See, Lemming Do,,,
