A different class of person. Personhood is not a unitary thing, not a boolean condition. Even in law, where a company is a legal person, they still differ from "natural persons".
There's nothing stopping us from creating as many new classes of "person" as we find useful.
Oh, good grief. It certainly is under the law.
Nothing useful in the above philosophy.
Then you include IBM, Shell, Bank of America, and all other corporate entities.
Wrong. But do come and play again.
Many conservatives here seem to conflate racism with the terms of racism, so they take much effort to studiously avoid using the "bad words" while otherwise pretty much saying whatever.
"I am absolutely sick to DEATH of these 'people of color'/'urban youths' etc."
Then you accuse them of racism and the evidence they present of their lack of bigotry essentially consists of "I didn't use the naughty words" or "I have black friends."
Then they get mad for you calling them names. Then they vote for Trump. You made me do it, you must be punished.
In summary:
Well, ten you do NOT know the law. Corporations are legally persons...
You really aren't very bright. Try a corporation for murder some time.
Corporate manslaughter is illegal and there have been prosecutions:
Did the corporation go to prison?
Irrelevant to your previous statement.
Of course it isn't. The question is whether corporations are human. They certainly aren't by any measure.
"Human" was NOT the term under discussion, bozo.
"Person" doesn't imply "human"? Check your dictionary.
Do i have to spell out EVERYTHING? We were talking about the *LAW* WRT persons. The dictionaries you use does not tell one about the legal differences between "person" and "human". The closest one can get is via Law.com; murder", "homicide", "vehicular manslaughter" and "natural person" (n. a real human being, as distinguished from a corporation, which... ).
That last entry is the closest..
You can *try* but you can't even run a web browser, so your chances are *zero* of explaining anything.
If you're talking about CU, then corporations are legally "persons" because they are run by people. They are legal extension *OF* people.
You're an idiot.
You're an idiot. But that's been said before.
They are legal extension *OF* people.
You're an idiot.
A distinction without a difference.
...and again.
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