[Talisker]

...the courts addressed the issue by first separating capital responsibility from personal responsibility. Nothing more than that. An obvious, common sense, easily understood concept ~ which was ancient!

It doesn't have to be "more than that" - the "separation of capital responsibility from personal responsibility" is the root of virtually all corruption.

This is also an obvious, common sense, easily understood concept ~ which is ancient!

[muawiyah]

You and the Marxists do make that argument. I, on the other hand, note that it is the very foundation of virtue.