the corporate entity

[low_delta]

If a person kills another person, and is convicted of the crime, he is sent to prison for a long time, or maybe executed. When a corporation kills someone, it is fined. And then it is business as usual? Why does it not lose its freedoms? Its ability do do business as it pleases?

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[blonnie.livejournal.com]

do you mean this in the figurative sense or in the literal sense.. that they -killed- a person?

because if you mean it in the literal sense.. i've often wondered the same thing myself..they are fined, the killing continues & then they just keep doling out money every few years to fix their wrongs. the money doesn't hurt them..

[blonnie.livejournal.com]

more like a slap on the wrist.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Literal. Like negligence, or defective product, or poor working conditions, or lack of safety measures.

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[blonnie.livejournal.com]

good then, we were in the same frame of mind :)

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

You're just lucky you're not in my frame of mind tonight! Muahaahaaaaaaa!

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[blonnie.livejournal.com]

considering that evil laughter concluding the statement, that could very well be true! :p

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[serendipity.livejournal.com]

OK, enough about me. :) How are you doing, Blonnie?

[blonnie.livejournal.com]

i'm doin' okie dokie, and yourself? :)

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

She's busy, I'd guess.

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[serendipity.livejournal.com]

Same as ever, doing well but way too busy.

[vlinker.livejournal.com]

not to stand on any side in this issue, but one has to realize that some industrial accidents are caused by lack of common sense.....for instance, a man was killed, asphixiated, while he slept in a pipe that was being welded on up north.....the company was assessed huge fines by OSHA and criminal charges were filed at the request of the next of kin......those charges were thrown out by the judge.......it seemed, the man, crawled up the pipe and around a bend, laid out a few jackets and went to sleep.....the contractor still had to pay the OSHA fines, and the death is a sad statistic.....but i don't see it as the contractor's fault.....other than they hired a person who had a "lapse in judgement" to be on their crew.....

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

That's fine then.

But there are cases where the companies are found grossly negligent, and business continues pretty much as normal. If this negligence was my personal fault, I would be sent to prison, and life as I know it would end.

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[vlinker.livejournal.com]

that is one of the reasons that my engineers seal stays in the drawer......somehow, that seal, means that i am liable for my designs for the rest of my life, at least in this state......