Corporations and personal responsibility are often at odds. We see how corporate executives make high-stakes decisions without bearing the full consequences. So how does this happen?

Corporations are legal fictions. They don’t physically exist, but the law treats them as if they do. The laws allows corporations to own property, enter contracts, and even sue and be sued.

The living men and women acting for and on behalf of corporation (executives, managers) are the ones who make decisions for it. Yet these people shield themselves from personal responsibility by hiding behind this legal fiction.

Corporate Responsibility vs. Personal Responsibility:

This facade highlights a lack of personal responsibility for those running corporations. Executives and managers often receive huge salaries and bonuses for making decisions.

Yet when things go wrong, they hide behind the corporation’s legal structure to avoid personal liability. The corporation is blamed, but the people behind it escape without consequences. This is unfair because they get the benefits (high pay, bonuses) without taking the risks personally.

Yet the “rules” change for the likes of mere mortals, we the people. Observe what happens when ordinary people, the average man or woman in the street, says things like “I am not my birth certificate” or “I am a living man or woman.”

Let’s face facts, that just like a corporation isn’t a real person, neither are they a “legal person.” They’re a living human being, independent of the legal system’s constructs.

Why Are Ordinary People Labeled “Sovereign Citizens” or “Vexatious Litigants”?

When people challenge these legal fictions, they’re often labeled as “Sovereign Citizens” (SovCits) or “Vexatious Litigants.” These, and other similar terms, name calling, is nothing more than a psychological tacit to discredit them and dismiss their challenges.

The legal system doesn’t want to recognize these challenges because it would undermine the entire framework of law that corporations and governments are built on.

Corporations, Legal People

The system treats corporations as “legal people” with all the benefits (limited liability, legal protections). And the same system denies individuals the same freedoms or recognition when they question their own legal personhood.

This creates a double standard.

The people running corporations benefit from legal protections while ordinary people are penalized for challenging the system.

Contradictions of Corporations and Personal Responsibility

Here we see a fundamental contradiction:

  • Corporations get all the benefits of being treated as “people” (even though they are legal fictions), but the people behind them don’t take personal responsibility when things go wrong.
  • Ordinary people who challenge the system are labeled and discredited as sovereign citizens or vexatious litigants.
  • Lawyers and corporate interests use these constructs to maintain power and shield themselves from accountability.
  • It’s simply a form of legal manipulation that protects the status quo.

Those that challenge this system are marginalized.

The key issue here is fairness and accountability.

Why should corporations and executives get legal benefits without responsibility, while individuals who reject these legal fictions are penalized?

Many people are waking up to, and challenging this disparity, as the authorities weaponise those sentiments.

What are you doing to take a stand against how corporations manipulate the law to avoid liability, while ordinary people are punished for questioning their own legal status?

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