At 13:34 27-1-01 -0500, Gautum Mukunda wrote:
> > Behalf Of J. van Baardwijk
> > At 11:40 27-1-01 -0500, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
> >
> > > > So, for corporations being sued is a *given right*? I'd think
> > >corporations
> > > > would consider being sued a problem, not a right.
> > >
> > >Yes, they do. You'd think wrong. If you can't sue a corporation,
>how
> > >can you hold it accountable to its contracts?
> >
> > Then the correct phrase would be "corporations have a right to sue
>others",
> > rather then "corporations have a right to be sued".
>
>No, it would not. The right to sue someone else is the right to hold
>someone _else_ to _their_ contracts. The right to be sued is the
>right to be held to your own contracts.
No offense, but you're not making sense here. Being sued is something
rather unpleasant; you are saying that a corporation (or an individual) has
the right to have something unpleasant done to them. By that definition,
you could also say "I have the right to be robbed" or "I have the right to
have my car stolen". Don't know about you, but I hardly consider that a
right...
>So what? If the government is going to pass laws that harm
>corporations and (more importantly) their stockholders for doing what
>they had a legal right to do previously
So the US once had laws that explicitly allowed American corporations to
pollute the environment? I find that hard to believe.
Jeroen
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