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by worrycue 1727 days ago
> Controls should be exerted on companies and institutions, not people.

Not sure there is a clear distinction. Companies and institutions are owned and ran by people.

You can run a one-man corporation if you like.

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It's my fault for being unclear. And really, companies and institutions are people, legally speaking. They have moral personality, at least in Civil Law.

In any case, they operate with a different incentive structure than single private citizens do. I don't think it's a revolutionary thing to say that companies don't, in fact, behave like physical people do.

Exactly - selling heroin to kids (outside of medicinal purposes) should be illegal. Whether it is a "company" (co-operating group of individuals) or an individual seems irrelevant.