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> Being a corporation, it should not be allowed to be a player in geopolitics.

Says who? Corporations have been waist deep in geopolitics since (at least) the beginning of the 20th century. see British Petroleum & the Iran coup, or Hearst and the American-Spanish war ("You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.")

Here's a list of corporations that are also players in geopolitics

- Fox Media (and anything owned by Rupert Murdock)

- Oil companies (e.g. Haliburton)

- Movie studios

- Fracking companies

- Numerous corporations behind TPP/TTIP




The East India Company, with its own private armies fighting wars, is probably the most egregious example in history.


> Says who?

As I read it, parent commenter said this. It is an opinion.

> Here's a list of corporations that are also players in geopolitics

It does not follow that it should be like this.


i think sangnoir wrote it in a morally outraged tone, and listed evidence to support littletimmy's post.


My claim was a moral one. An entity like a corporation exists to make profit for shareholders and is therefore an amoral, psychopathic entity. Being subject to a corporation is fuctionally no different than being subject to a dictator or a king; it is a morally repugnant condition.




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