The Corporation

After watching this film i will answer two questions?

1. Should corporations be entitled to the same legal rights as individuals? Where should the line be drawn?

As corporations as legal persons are immortal, special, unmoral, unethical and cold machines they would not respect others, they would not care to harm you, they would not respond with the full implementation of the law as they are special, they are intangible and will only pay money for any harm done. This is not how life is seen normally by humans.

From my perspective corporations should not acquire legal rights as individuals because they have a big difference, they do not live like us, they just exists as an entity that searches to acquire money with any mean necessary and have no real conscious that retain it for committing crimes towards the community.

Courts must be based on the principle of life, where corporations as i just said just exist and humans live with all the implications it represents.

3. Should individuals (directors, employees, shareholders) bear any responsibility for the actions of a corporation? If so, to what degree?

Of course individuals should bear responsibilities, if not they would take advantage of their situation to brake the law through the corporation for acquiring monetary goods and blame someone else.

If directors, employees and shareholders bear responsibilities they would respect the community rights and will detain chaos. Responsibility is essential in the corporation process for becoming a near conscious entity that respects others.

They would take responsibility equilibrated of the role it plays in the corporation, as an employee, let's say a customer service agent, its responsibilities would be to treat customers as equals, responsibilities over the merchandise it handles(stealing, Damage, incomplete, stock), social responsibility, ethical, moral, a CEO responsibility would be huge, almost unmeasurable as it controls large amounts of employees, transaction between corporations, environmental issues,etc. The responsibility is different in each level of the corporation preventing it to commit damages or at least to try.

References:

http://thedevilspeaks.com/images/devil_inc_logo.png
http://www.impawards.com/2004/posters/corporation.jpg
http://www.teeth.com.pk/blog/wp-content/photos/Take_Responsibility.gif