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What does it mean?
Business entities lack moral accountability like humans.
In plain terms
Companies can do harm without human moral cost.
What can you take from it?
Corporations are harder to punish than people.

Where it applies

  • regulation
  • litigation
  • activism

Putting it to work

  • advocacy
  • policy reform

Questions to consider

  • How do we hold companies accountable?
  • Who really runs corporations?

Another view

Modern law can and does impose sanctions on firms.

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