A corporation is a person? Then it is also a psychopath.

[Ardent15]

As explored in the film, "The Corporation", corporations are legally persons. But what kind of person?

Here's the checklist for psychopathy, from Dr. Robert Hare

1. Glibness/superficial charm
2. Grandiose sense of self-worth
3. Pathological lying
4. Cunning/manipulative
5. Lack of remorse or guilt
6. Emotionally shallow
7. Callous/lack of empathy
8. Failure to accept responsibility for own actions

Does any of this sound familiar?

We have legalized, legitimized, and accepted psychopathy in this country. The system is designed to protect and empower psychopaths who prey on other people.

[Kolesar]

1. How about "sociopath"?

A corporation cannot feel empathy for humans.

[Ardent15]

2. That works too.

Sociopathy and psychopathy are distinct because of their origins, not because of the results.

[izquierdista]

3. So can we have them committed?

Have the Exxon and Blackwater and Halliburton Articles of Incorporation put into a padded cell until they exhibit better behavior? Lockups for the criminally insane are full of people that have done less damage.

[spin]

4. Strange, it seems to me that big corporations have more rights ...

than individual people.

Often they are considered too big to fail.

[Ardent15]

7. Yeah...and "too big to fail" is a sick joke

No one really, truly believes that any institution is "too big to fail."

[trustmecarsalesman]

5. I think this is a compelling argument...

I mean, it's easy for an inexperienced youth to get sucked into the kind of "you get what you earn, and fuck everyone else" mentality... expecially ones who grew up in a privelaged household. But I think at some point we just have to ask ourselfs the question: "do we really want to live in a society like that?" Where does it stop? I constantly find myself lately asking the question "why bother?" at work and with my career, and I feel like it is this sociopathic mentality that has created a society that is run almost entirely by the wealthiest .1%

I mean, it's not even a strech to see why this happens; and some pretty horrific things are shrugged off with the excuse "it's just business"

[Ardent15]

6. It's just good business...

[RB TexLa]

8. They are not legally persons. That saying doesn't lose it's idiocy no matter how many times it's

repeated.

[bemildred]

9. Corporations are terrorists. nt