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If a human were to do something like this he would get prison time. Instead since it has been done by "a company", nothing will be done. I wish we, the humanity, would start to treat limited liability only as a financial tool. If something like this is done, it's not the company that must be sued, but the people who made it.

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Maybe companies should be "imprisoned" as well for things like this. Obviously you can't actually put them in prison, but you could force them to cease operations for a period of time, which is effectively what you do to a person when you imprison them.

Unfortunately, this also hurts the employees of the company, most of whom had no connection to the criminal act. I'd rather hold the decision-makers who perpetrated the crime personally responsible.

That's no different from imprisoning individuals, where their family or anyone else who depends on them gets hurt. If you depend on a criminal then you'll suffer when they're punished.

Agreed in principle. Limited liability is created by statute, and can and should be rolled back as needed to prevent pathological outcomes.

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