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can anyone help me here , I have a question

posted 17 years ago by cuva
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i didnt understand what the movie maker tries to equate corporation to ,, please tell me |

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The movie takes off from the premise that a corporation is, by law, a "legal person," then asks, what type of person? The checklist presented in the film is most similar to the characteristics of the antisocial/dissocial/sociopathic personality.

From wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder
Antisocial personality disorder (APD) is a psychiatric condition characterized by an individual's common disregard for social rules, norms, and cultural codes, as well as impulsive behavior, and indifference to the rights and feelings of others. Antisocial personality disorder is terminology used by the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, while the World Health Organization's ICD-10 refers to Dissocial personality disorder. People diagnosed with this disorder are typically called Sociopaths.

[–] dandyxavier 16 years ago

Then you should watch it once more...

[–] HotShot2387 13 years ago

The movie is trying to say that being a "legal person" means you are supposed to think of a corporation as an actual (living, breathing) person. Seems a little disingenuous to me, obviously Disney is not "some funny guy" like that random interviewee said at the very beginning of the movie, but if it helped the filmmakers win people over on their ideas, more power to them.

[–] zarathustra2k1 13 years ago

The movie is most certainly not "trying to say that being a "legal person" means you are supposed to think of a corporation as an actual (living, breathing) person."

It's actually saying that US law dictates that a corporation is "an actual (living, breathing) person."

Big difference...

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[–] HotShot2387 13 years ago

Well, not such a big difference if we're talking about what legal protections a corporation should have, at least the way I see it. In any case:

-US Law actually says corporations are artificial people, and are certainly not natural people, nor do they have the same rights. This is obviously a good distinction to make, unless you don't mind if corporations to start voting as well :)

-The way I saw it, the movie certainly was trying to blur this difference, and make us judge corporations the same way we would natural people. Two examples being the beginning segment, where they asked people to imagine the personalities of different companies, and the fact that they even mentioned this ridiculous "if corporations are people, then they are sociopaths" argument.