> Corporations cannot put you in jail for life; our government can. The government is held to a different standard, and rightly so. You work for a company, the government works for you.
You speak about theoretical things but I have to say; corporations have been far more damaging to me personally than the governments here in America ever have.
Even your example about jail, for instance, would require that I do something bad enough to warrant life imprisonment, that I get caught, that an investigation into my actions returns an indictment, that the case against me doesn't get thrown out on a technicality, that the prosecution then goes on to positively prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that I'm guilty, and then goes further to prove I'm such a danger to society that I should be removed for life.
Oh, and that a judge agrees with the sentence, it never gets overturned on one of multiple layers of appeal, and that the prisons don't get so overcrowded that they have to release nice guys like me early.
Now, if you're going to say that the government could imprison me by taking extralegal actions I would actually agree. But then the same applies to corporations and individuals in general.
So while I agree that the government works for the people and should be held to that standard, I disagree that the government works for me or you personally, which is one of the reasons we allow governments to maintain information controls at all (because it's in the interest of society at large).
You speak about theoretical things but I have to say; corporations have been far more damaging to me personally than the governments here in America ever have.
Even your example about jail, for instance, would require that I do something bad enough to warrant life imprisonment, that I get caught, that an investigation into my actions returns an indictment, that the case against me doesn't get thrown out on a technicality, that the prosecution then goes on to positively prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that I'm guilty, and then goes further to prove I'm such a danger to society that I should be removed for life.
Oh, and that a judge agrees with the sentence, it never gets overturned on one of multiple layers of appeal, and that the prisons don't get so overcrowded that they have to release nice guys like me early.
Now, if you're going to say that the government could imprison me by taking extralegal actions I would actually agree. But then the same applies to corporations and individuals in general.
So while I agree that the government works for the people and should be held to that standard, I disagree that the government works for me or you personally, which is one of the reasons we allow governments to maintain information controls at all (because it's in the interest of society at large).