• EatATaco@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Mom and pop grocery store - incorporated because they aren’t idiots - gets robbed. Not victims because they are a corporation?

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      3 months ago

      It’s their own fault if they didn’t take the reasonable precautions that anyone should be aware of when going in to business for profit.

      Notice how in my original comment I added “through improper security” and “improper practices”.

      If you are running a business and get robbed without security cameras, insurance, and other reasonable protective and preventative methods, then you are at fault.

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        3 months ago

        Ehhh I dunno. Saying it’s the stores fault they got robbed feels wrong. It’s the robbers fault for, you know, robbing. I mean, how far does that go? They had locks but not good enough locks. Yeah they had locks but no security system. Well they had a security system but no guard. At some point the blame is on the person that actually committed the crime.

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          3 months ago

          My point is that corporations cannot be victims because they’re not people, they’re a legal construct. They cannot be victims any more than a table can be a victim when I spill my drink over it. The term “victim”, whether intentional or not, is an emotive word that invokes ideas of injustice and suffering.

          Marketing teams and corporate executives convinced people and legal systems that corporations are people in an attempt to engender sympathy, personification, and to avoid responsibility for their own failures, like the case in this article where managerial and procedural failures by those in charge led to the ability for this ex-employee to be able to do what he did.