>
> Max rather quickly descends into nonsense, and rather brutal nonsense,
> when he strays far from technical economics. The Cato Institute (and all
> other libertarians that I have ever met) counts corporations as persons.
It doesn't matter much what Cato or Milton Friedman or anybody else thinks of corporations-as-people, it the law of the land. Long ago decided law, not likely to be reversed law. Yes, revolting law, but hardly Cato's fault, as the ground work for this state of affairs was laid several decades before Cato came into existence.
> It is impossible to defend the freedom of corporations without (fairly
> consciously) approving of the suppression of the freedom of individual
> humans. And "disagreeing" with that philosophy is not sufficient to
> separate one from the material reality of the Cato institute, which is
> the approval of mass murder so long as the visible agent of such murder
> is a "citizen" (i.e., corporation) rather than an overt arm of the
> state. As far as workers at Cato being nice people, we are coming
> awfully close to observing that after all, Hitler liked animals. Surely
> the oil and chemical companies whose "civil rights" Cato defends have
> murdered more people than all the individualist terrorists of the last
> 50 years combined.
>
> Carrol
>
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