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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 8918078" data-attributes="member: 907"><p>It took me a while, but I figured out the big thing bothering me about this argument.</p><p></p><p>Society has decided to pretend corporations are people. They have pretty much the same rights as people – they can own property, they have freedom of speech, etc.</p><p></p><p>Then we shouldn't absolve corporations from keeping promises made in the past even if those promises are no longer convenient for them. The corporation made that promise. The corporation should keep it. It doesn't matter that there's another person wearing the corporation mask now, because we still treat the corporation as the same person.</p><p></p><p>If we allow a corporation to wiggle out of promises made in the past, we should also deny them everything else that happened in the past. They bought something? Well, that was different people buying it and different people selling it, so the sale is no longer valid. They paid people to make books for them? Well, the people in charge of the corporation have changed, so those books should now be public domain.</p><p></p><p>You can see how ridiculous this is. The same goes for the argument that a promise made by other people in the same corporation, when empowered to speak for the corporation (like Ryan Dancey was), can be nullified when new people are in charge.</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]273977[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 8918078, member: 907"] It took me a while, but I figured out the big thing bothering me about this argument. Society has decided to pretend corporations are people. They have pretty much the same rights as people – they can own property, they have freedom of speech, etc. Then we shouldn't absolve corporations from keeping promises made in the past even if those promises are no longer convenient for them. The corporation made that promise. The corporation should keep it. It doesn't matter that there's another person wearing the corporation mask now, because we still treat the corporation as the same person. If we allow a corporation to wiggle out of promises made in the past, we should also deny them everything else that happened in the past. They bought something? Well, that was different people buying it and different people selling it, so the sale is no longer valid. They paid people to make books for them? Well, the people in charge of the corporation have changed, so those books should now be public domain. You can see how ridiculous this is. The same goes for the argument that a promise made by other people in the same corporation, when empowered to speak for the corporation (like Ryan Dancey was), can be nullified when new people are in charge. [ATTACH type="full"]273977[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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