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To: Jim S who wrote (23899)	11/1/2007 6:35:09 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 71588

Thank you. Indeed they are not treated like persons in every way. The get treatment in some respects that used to only be given to people, and they are considered "legal persons" in certain contexts, but its true that they are not treated as the same as citizens, or non-citizen homo sapiens. Now in theory some of the legal rights that corporations get could be a bad idea or unjust. But I've never seen a good argument against any of them. I've seen a lot of arguments against limited liability (which really is a right of the shareholders not a right of the corporation as such, the shareholders are protected from lawsuits, not the corporation itself), but while those arguments where more detailed than anything I've seen here, and they sometimes had a certain internal logic, they where far from convincing. But Buddy doesn't seem to want to argue about limited liability. Instead he brings up concepts that might not even be applicable, and if they are seem non problematic, like habeas corpus, protections from search and seizure, and protection from incrimination, but doesn't show any real world examples where these things caused harm.