Posted on 01/12/2016 7:56:13 AM PST by Academiadotorg
It's interesting that some of the same people who go ballistic at the suggestion that corporations are people are quite willing to ascribe human attributes to inhuman things. "I'm out to prove that rocks are alive and humans are not," Simon Porzak, a writing instructor at Columbia said at the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention in Austin last week.
Porzak had a slew of lines that kept the crowd at the MLA in stiches:
~ "Can I baptize a dog?" (he and his source left the question open)
~ "Crossing boundary lines with a pigskin"
~ "We never judge other humans in a thinking/non-thinking binary"
~ "Our task being clear, how do we build a Ph.D. robot?"
According to his vitae, Porzak’s interests include comparative literature, decadence, French Language and Literature, French Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies. He is the author of a number of papers including "Inverts and Invertebrates: Darwin, Proust, and Nature's Queer Heterosexuality."
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Ahem, corporations ARE people. Corporations are legally defined groups of people. Get a clue.
On the other hand, Bruce Jenner always has been and always will be a man, not a woman, and marriage always has been and always will be the union of a man and a woman.
Leftists need to just stfu and learn their proper place: In the category of the mentally ill.
“Corporations are legally defined groups of people.”
No, they are legally defined as something of a “virtual individual”, for purposes of the law. When you sue a corporation, it is a single defendant, treated like an individual person, you are not suing the shareholders collectively.
Of course, but nonetheless they are as I said — legally defined groups of people.
Corporations are people. They’re not cats, nor goldfish, nor filing cabinets. People.
Corporations are not people, they are legal entities (which can be owned by people). The law simply treats them as individuals for purposes such as liability in lawsuits.
What you mean to say is that they’re people which have formed themselves into legal entities. They’re people.
No, that’s not what I mean to say at all.
Balderdash
What, do you fancy yourself a mind reader?
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