• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    “We’ve always done it that way” is not a great reason to keep doing something wrong, though.

    If it doesn’t breathe, eat, talk, and feel, it’s not a person. Calling it one doesn’t make it true.

    To be clear this isn’t aimed at you, I’m pretty sure you’re not 200 years old and didn’t come up with the original idea.

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      11 hours ago

      The legal notion of corporate “personhood” is in the very first words of US law:

      the words “person” and “whoever” include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals;

      Congress can choose to break this.

      https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/1/1