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Yes, the ability to hide behind limited liability while demanding the right to manipulate the political process to their own narrow ends is the crux of the debate. They have person-hood but are exempt from the full responsibility of an actual person.It's a spurious argument, many laws pertain to the responsible use of things, guns, cars, aircraft, structures, etc. A corporation can and should be considered a thing, as they are but structures with the intended purpose of producing profit.Laws can NOT apply to THINGS.
The fuck they can't. What do you call gun control?
Other countries do just fine treating corporations as an artificial construct rather than an organic thing with god-given rights and actually hold the people in charge responsible for wrongdoing.
A corporation is a legal entity, and it needs to be recognized as such. The idea of corporate personhood was meant only to the extend that a corporation is recognized as having the same basic rights and responsibilities as it pertains to entering into agreements, and legal matters. A corporation can contract. It can sue to enforce the contract. It can be sued if it violates the contract. It has a right to representation when suing or being sued. Etc. A corporation has a right to not be searched without a warrant. A corporation can own property.
The problem is that corporate personhood has been warped and twisted into an atrocity. Now, corporations have religion. Corporations have political agendas. Corporations have a constitutionally protected right to "free speech" in the form of spending their money.
This nonsense about how a corporation "has" to have personhood in order to effect limited liability is absolutely nonsense. In reality, the limited liability establishes that the corporation is not a person, it is merely a legal abstraction existing in the minds of persons. If the corporation truly had personhood then liability would not be limited, it would be completely obfuscated. It would mean that if a CEO pulls out an AR-15 in a board room and kills everyone, the corporation would be charged with murder.