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Re:The Whanganui River in New Zealand is a legal person by cperciva on Monday April 22, 2019 @05:40PM (#19723265)
why should a natural entity not be treated like a person?

The obvious answer here is "ok, they're all persons, and as soon as they can stand up in court and tell us what they want, we'll listen to them".

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Re:The Whanganui River in New Zealand is a legal person by peeters on Monday April 22, 2019 @06:33PM (#19723713)
To which the obvious counterpoint is "ok, so mentally incapacitated people shouldn't have rights because they can't articulate them?"
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Re:The Whanganui River in New Zealand is a legal person by refurb on Monday April 22, 2019 @08:44PM (#19724584)
To which I would reply “Disabled people are humans, so there are non-disabled humans who have articulated universal rights.”
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Re:The Whanganui River in New Zealand is a legal person by dragonwriter on Monday April 22, 2019 @07:01PM (#19723918)
We have well established systems in law for persons without capacity to either represent themselves or even designate a representative to have their legal interests represented, because this happens with existing legal persons (even natural persons) with some regularity.
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