Comment by jstanley

Comment by jstanley a day ago

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> Most people who (quite reasonably) hate corporate personhood would probably have a knee-jerk reaction that personhood for a river can/should be normalized.

I would have thought that people who hate the idea of corporate personhood would also hate the idea of any other kind of non-person personhood.

whatevertrevor 19 hours ago

I don't think the general hatred of corporate personhood stems from the logical or taxonomic absurdity of it. Rather, I sense it comes from the perceived effects of it, that in their eyes allow corporations to get away without paying their "fair share".

I think it's an instrument of convenience that has predictably resulted in a lot of legal tech-debt, which is largely inevitable because of how slow we are at adapting laws to our lived realities.

dudeinjapan a day ago

Part of having personhood is that one’s ideas don’t have to have any logical or consistent basis.

justatdotin 16 hours ago

no river ever hit me with a strategic lawsuit

  • jstanley 3 hours ago

    Does that make rivers more person-like or less person-like?