Mitt Romney's statement to a campaign questioner that "Corporations are people, my friend!" reflects his personal and legal view of Citizen's United (I hope he didn't come up with that all on his own!), then what ramifications are there for his actions at Bain Capital? Is what he and his company did to the corporations they took over reflective of his attitudes toward real human beings?
If so...
...then wouldn't his breaking of those corporations into its functional units that other corporations could install and use as their own make him an "organ dealer"?
...then wouldn't the very purchase and sale of those corporations make him a "slave trader"?
...then wouldn't his deliberate and premeditated termination of those corporations make him a "first degree murderer"? Or, if performed those terminations because of the corporation's terminal condition, is he a "Kevorkian"?
...then will you pray for the deceased corporations and posthumously baptize them into the LDS church?
Of course, Mr. Romney would not see himself as any of these things. Nor would anyone who, like me, finds Citizens United a twisted, morally repugnant distortion of law. Candidate Romney, however, appears to have a problem appearing to be a "people", himself, one that acknowledges and wrestles with the questions and complexity of life. The answers he gives are presented as if they are simple and self-evident, even as they are contradictory and self-negating.
So, Mr. Romney: Do you REALLY think corporations are people? Your assertion that they are, juxtaposed with your Mormon values toward the value and sanctity of life, must make your moral compass spin.
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BTW, no stranger who asks you a question to which you would give that answer is likely to be your "friend", either.