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If a company poisons baby-milk, who do you arrest? The company? It's a "person" after all.

(I presume you know this, but this was an actual case in China).



You arrest the employees if what they did was criminal (which would be the case whether a company is involved or not) and fine the company, or in extreme cases, revoke the company's charter (aka corporate death penalty).

Being able to be imprisoned is not a defining feature of a legal person, this line of argument will get you nowhere.




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