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CPLX 4 hours ago

You might want to think about this this other way.

If you were severely harmed by the actions of a specific person who happened to also be a business executive, should you be allowed to pursue that business executive in court?

Let’s say for example a wealthy man decides, for his personal amusement, to bulldoze your home. The bulldozer is owned by a LLC with no assets or insurance but the man is very rich. Should you be allowed to sue him personally?

How about if a family decides to engage in purposeful behavior in selling a deadly addictive drug that kills hundreds of thousands of people, making billions of dollars. Should they be allowed to walk away?

The “strange” convention that we adhere to is that we let people shield themselves from the consequences of their behavior behind corporate structures. Not the other way around.

The least we can do is ask them to show up in court and explain why that legal fiction should apply to them.

etiennebausson 3 hours ago | parent [-]

That's fair, all your examples seems to signal that the existence of LLC is the root problem.

lb1lf 2 hours ago | parent [-]

'Corporations have no bodies to be punished nor any souls to be condemned, hence they do as they please.'

-Lord Thurlow, late 1700s.