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Re:Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Acc... by gpu_explorer on Sunday January 02, 2022 @12:47PM (#29771239)
By this logic, your family is also not a conscious being and cannot experience the subjective feeling of being oppressed. Or maybe you have a girlfriend or a boyfriend and a group of friends. Are these groups also unable to experience the subjective feeling of being oppressed?
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Re:Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Acc... by psyc on Sunday January 02, 2022 @04:03PM (#29773846)
That's right. But they are able to have what we call a shared experience, which is a little different. However it isn't relevant here, because the shared experience of all the employees of a corporation is not the basis for the legal personhood of corporations. And what is the basis?

class Corporation : public Person

It's for the same reason mediocre OOP programmers use inheritance to borrow some partial implementation. It gets the job done, even if it doesn't quite fit.

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