Personhood rights! How about Personhood Responsibilities?

[Motown_Johnny]

Is it now possible to try Corporations for things like negligent homicide or manslaughter? If so, will the punishment be similar to that which a flesh and blood person would endure?


So if a product contributes to the death of an actual person can the manufacturer and/or distributer be held accountable the way an actual person would be?



I don't think a Constitutional Amendment is possible in this political climate so I think we need to take a different approach.



You want personhood? Fine... you can have personhood and all that comes with it.

[jgraz]

1. We need a corporate death penalty

Close the doors, liquidate the assets and claw back five years of executive salaries.

[KittyWampus]

5. there is, it's called "Trust Busting" or Anti-Trust Laws".

[jgraz]

8. Not the same.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Like make them pay their taxes along with the rest of us?

[annabanana]

3. And all corporations will be interred after their "three score & ten"

is done. Assets will revert to the State that authorized them to operate in the first place.

[AndyA]

4. Think of all the big corporations that would now be gone had a law like this

existed in the past.

There's a bunch of 'em. ;)

[Motown_Johnny]

6. I would love to make a Citizen's arrest to a company like Blackwater.....

I wonder where you put the handcuffs?

[vincna]

7. I'm not a lawyer, but...

it's my understanding that corporate officers can be charged for criminal activities of their corporations. If the corporation is criminally negligent, the officers can be sent to jail.