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If a company has had all of its components replaced does it remain fundamentally the same company?

 

[prabe]

If a company has had all of its components replaced does it remain fundamentally the same company?

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and? I know exactly where i garbed it from

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As a first level (D&D5e) Paladin without a horse. I should not set out on a long-distance overland adventure armed only with a dagger and a 20' lance.

 

[Parmandur]

If a company has had all of its components replaced does it remain fundamentally the same company?

Aristotle would say no because corporationa do nor have Substantial Form, Plato would say yes probably becauae Ideas. I say maybe.

 

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Aristotle would say no because corporationa do nor have Substantial Form, Plato would say yes probably becauae Ideas. I say maybe.

I say it's based on the discussion you're having and your goal

 

[prabe]

and? I know exactly where i garbed it from

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As a first level (D&D5e) Paladin without a horse. I should not set out on a long-distance overland adventure armed only with a dagger and a 20' lance.

It was acknowledgment of what you were doing, more than anything else.

 

[Parmandur]

I say it's based on the discussion you're having and your goal

Hmmmmmmm...

 

[MarkB]

If a company has had all of its components replaced does it remain fundamentally the same company?

Fundamentally or functionally? If you replace an axe's handle with a new axe-handle, and then replace its head with a new axe-head, it may be fundamentally a different object, but it's still an axe.

 

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Fundamentally or functionally? If you replace an axe's handle with a new axe-handle, and then replace its head with a new axe-head, it may be fundamentally a different object, but it's still an axe.

And if a company makes a ton of money doing things you find objectionable, you might find the company objectionable as long as they keep that money--and probably keep making money on that money--even if they stop doing those objectionable things.