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To: faireturn
I didn't see the post where someone thinks a corporation defends individual rights. That is not their calling.

"Hardly. Ever hear of coercion? Most rational people are fighting these infringements tooth & nail."

You'll have to tell me about the coercion. Last I looked, no one was being forced to work for these corporations. Quite the contrary, they work there because they want the jobs. Your thinking is akin to union thinking, the employee gets to dictate the terms, by the power of the law. Now that's coercion!

74 posted on 10/09/2005 7:57:44 PM PDT by Sam Cree (absolute reality)
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To: Sam Cree
Sam Cree said: "Last I looked, no one was being forced to work for these corporations. "

Well, it might not be that simple.

Corporations are not PEOPLE. For many legal purposes, they are treated like people. That is one of the advantages of incorporation.

Corporations are business entities created through the operation of state law. Such laws exist to ENCOURAGE business activity, mainly by limiting the liability of the corporation to the assets of the corporations. The stockholders cannot be held liable for the corporations debts.

This state-sponsored limitation of liability has become an essential element of business success. There are few large companies which are not incorporated. Unfortunately, corporations have no sensitivity to human rights. They are not PEOPLE, so one shouldn't expect such sensitivity. Corporations were not endowed by their creators with unalienable rights.

However, the tremendous success of corporations creates a situation in which corporations have tremendous impact on people's lives. It is absolutely unreasonable to believe that EVERYONE could chose not to work for a corporation. Some could, but if everyone tried, the entire economy would fail.

An unintended consequence of corporate success, is that many aspects of our lives are controlled by such corporations. Many corporations are multi-national. There is no reason to believe that such corporations will have any respect for human righs whatever, given that they might be able to operate more profitably in countries with no human rights guarantees.

For the reasons I described above, I find no compelling reason to spare corporations from legal constraints on their abilities to reduce the freedom of the people. If corporations were forbidden to infringe the right of the people to keep and bear arms, I see no reason to believe that the economic success of corporations would in any way be negatively impacted.

86 posted on 10/09/2005 10:50:26 PM PDT by William Tell
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