jm_rivesMar 1, 2024
#LegalPeople #Question If the Comstock act is enforced against birth control and abortifacients, could they legally be shipped by private companies like UPS, FedEx, Etc?
Kent PitmanMar 3, 2023

@breadandcircuses @cristinah

Corporations do commonly use their power to magnify the speech of individuals that control them. See my essay Employers of Religion, the third in a three-part series that beings with Corporations Are Not People
http://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2013/12/corporations-are-not-people.html

NOTE: Google has recently marked part 3 as violating its terms of service. I am at a loss for knowing why, but my best guess is that this is political suppression of speech about corporations. There is nothing I know to be offensive in this article, though it does seek to deny alleged "freedom of religion" to corporations per se, and maybe someone has twisted that into some sense of my writings being intolerant, when in fact I am fussing about corporations doing that.

Make your own decision about whether to proceed past Google's warning, but this post existed for many years in public without anyone citing a problem:
http://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2013/12/employers-of-religion.html
I've included the most important quote as an image on this post, though, in case you're feeling shy.

#corporations #capitalism #LegalPersonhood #LegalPerson #LegalPeople #rights

Corporations Are Not People

Kent Pitman's blog. Independent, progressive views on Society, Technology, Social Justice and Climate, or sometimes poetry, philosophy, or history.

Show threadKent PitmanMar 3, 2023

@alter_kaker @breadandcircuses Regarding the metaphor of sociopathy, I'm using it because it specifically is associated with lack of conscience. I have no mental health credential, so my use is purely descriptive from a lay point of view.

I don't by using this term mean to suggest per se irrationality (an inability to reason) as might come with some actual mental disorders. We're speaking metaphorically here, and metaphors are not literal equivalences. But rather I mean the kind of reckless indifference and appearance of actual cruelty that results in a weirdly logical way if you steadfastly fail (or refuse) to consider moral questions.

This is an artifact particularly of shareholder capitalism. Stakeholder capitalism is better. See my essay Losing the War in a Quiet Room.
http://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2019/09/losing-ground-in-environment.html

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Losing Ground in the Environment

Essay on how we can't still see the world as an infinite resource. Things are interconnected and finite, so we need a fresh mindset when planning.