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The cells in the body of a murderer could have stopped him/her, if they had seized the moment. But they did not. Thus there are endless philosophical arguments about free will to be had, but for practicality, we assume the outermost shell with the most control, is responsible for the inner components.

If we treat cooperation like persons, they should be judged and sentenced as person. Including restructuring of malformed processes and life-time-imprisonment for anti-social behaviour




Could you imagine the criminal reforms that would result from a world in which corporations could be sentenced to death?


That’s what actually happened to accounting firm Arthur Andersen for its role in the Enron fraud and bankruptcy.

I’m all in favor of the corporate death penalty.

Originally corporations were chartered under authority of the king for a limited time, typically 20 to 30 years, so great was the mistrust in them.


That... actually sounds like a very interesting idea.




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