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Darwin Day is a celebration of Charles Darwin's birthday, the theory of evolution and science in general. This year marks his 210th birthday and 160 years since the publication of The Origin of Species. Those looking to celebrate or learn more about Darwin and evolution will find a wealth of events going on, or if you'd rather not leave the house, try a Darwin Day card with designs generated by simulated evolution.
Recently, an important finding in man's evolution was announced; the so-called Missing Link was confirmed. Australopithecus Sediba fossils were found in 2010 but it took a decade of research and debate for scientists to confirm that this was indeed the missing link that connects man's evolution in an unbroken chain back to primate ancestors.
Not everyone is down with Darwin. The Pew Research Center reports, "In spite of the fact that evolutionary theory is accepted by all but a small number of scientists, it continues to be rejected by many Americans. In fact, about one-in-five U.S. adults reject the basic idea that life on Earth has evolved at all." In Indiana, senator Dennis Kruse introduced a bill that would, among other things, "require the teaching of various theories concerning the origin of life, including creation science."
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Monday February 11 2019, @07:01PM (3 children)
Declaring corporations to be people is a legal loophole to achieve a financial stability that otherwise won't exist. It is what gives legal basis to a contract between you and a corporation. It is purely a legal technicality.
Your rest of the post stands true. Democrats and Republicans are both beholden to different corporations and different ideas of how to get more funding for themselves. You don't have a say if you are poor.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 12 2019, @12:14AM (2 children)
Not really, it's not something that anybody else has to the extent we do. Allowing corporations into contracts isn't something that required corporate personhood, the US existed for well over a century without corporate personhood.
There's no reason why corporations should be allowed to donate to political campaigns. And there's no reason why they should be permitted to do things that would land actual people in prison.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Tuesday February 12 2019, @09:20AM (1 child)
> There's no reason why corporations should be allowed to donate to political campaigns.
... which is a different thing that extending personhood to corporations. Legal language is very much like math. Giving personhood to corporations meant that all the laws that apply to a person also apply to corporations which was an incredibly elegant solution when compared to writing the totally different laws to handle corporations.
It simply made more sense to hold corporations responsible for all the things that a person is held for, then eliminating discrepancies on a case-by-case basis, than not holding corporations responsible at all, and add responsibilities on a case-by-case basis.
If you go in detail about all this, you will see why it is this way. Historically, laws were always about holding someone responsible as there was never a question of "rights". State was not as intrusive as it is today (and contrary to leftist ideologies). You could kill, rape, loot and if you were able to hold your own ground the king would most probably recognize your authority and in lieu of tax. So extending personhood to corporations was all about holding corporations responsible and about giving them more rights.
It is just a bad progression, or corruption, that a very good approach has been used to bent natural laws this way. I mean, instead of revoking the rights of corporations SC has chosen to extend rights so much that giving money is considered free-speech, i.e. bribery is legal. I would say SC made a bad judgment. Of course, I haven't read the full judgment so...
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Tuesday February 12 2019, @09:22AM
> So extending personhood to corporations was all about holding corporations responsible than about giving them more rights.
15 years and I still don't use preview :)