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In reply to the discussion: June: Hillary on Snowden's "outrageous behavior" [View all]Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)...make different decisions based on my experiences.
I want to point out that legal and moral are different things. At one point in our history, we could legally own other human beings. At the same time the morality of that was questioned. Fairly recently, decisions our highest court has made have dumbfounded me. How could a legal construct for profit, a paper entity, have a political conscience?
I suppose it could be argued that a corporation is a sub-society with a motive (trading resources for gain), and, as it is made of actual people, it has a group conscience. I'll counter with as the prime motive is exclusively focused on. The resulting sub-society is driven by gain, that instead of a hive mind we have constructed a hive sociopath. I'm kind of against sharing political power with a known sociopath who lies, pollutes, exploits, and suppresses for profit.
I have no law degree, and maybe by being out in the world interacting with people instead of locking myself in the ivory tower of justice, I might have a better understand of humanity. Just lack the ability to expound in legalese.