thedizzi:

A sociopath and a corporation have identical incentive structures and motivations:

Both sociopaths and corporations exist for the sole purpose of self-centered goals—sociopaths want a variety of things (money, power, sex, etc.) while corporations are solely focused upon making money.

Neither has an internal sense of morality and, barring intervention from a more powerful authority, both are willing to exploit others in service of their goal; just as how a sociopath may be willing to lie, cheat and steal their way through life, a corporation is willing to use child sweatshop labor to depress costs.

Both sociopaths and corporations are constrained through risk/reward analysis—sociopaths weigh the value or pleasure of doing something immoral against the legal/social risks, while corporations weigh the profit of their actions against the cost of legal/social actions against their agenda.

Anybody who supports corporate personhood needs to be reminded that corporations may make money, but they will do anything to maximize their profits. As “people,” corporations gain the ability to influence the government with their trillions in profit, thus making it less costly/risky for them to violate your rights.

A corporate “person” is nothing less than an entity with the legal protections of a corporation and the moral compass of Hannibal Lecter—it may ignore you or even provide a service for the right price, but it may also decide to eat you one day if it is so inclined.