The Grapevine for March 6, 2010

by Parris ja Young

How do you feel about corporations being considered human?



Tami Williams: To the extent that they exploit human beings, particularly vulnerable ones, the notion of elevating them to the status of being regarded as individual people frightens me. I believe that would render them more capable of wreaking greater harm and havoc on humans for greater profit.

Jonny Morgan: I don't fear corporations having rights. I fear their rights being more protected than those of the individuals that make them up. Why do our corporations have better health care than we do?

Caren Beilia: Corporations are not people based on what I know about lungs. I used to think lungs were soft like perhaps a pair of robins or balloons in the body but they are harder. A corporation cannot breathe, or know, by breathing of love.

Alex Wolfe: The question that seems to pop up in my head is: What's the moral and emotional center of a corporation? I have a hard enough time finding that center in my close friends, let alone in a huge gonglomerate of individuals like a corporation.

Jim Day: Most of the large corporations are multinational. This means that there are major investors and stockowners that are from China, Russia, Japan, Iraq, or anywhere else. These foreigners could literally BUY our elections or, in a way, our very government.

Steven Chord: Bankruptcy is to suicide as corporation is to human.
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