I didn't vote you down, but I will offer my reasoning for why I don't think you understand the problem with treating companies as people.<p>I'm sure you've heard of the saying to separate business and personal stuff. Well that is the problem. Companies legally have to do what's in the companies own profit seeking interest. This is in the hopes that some of that profit seeking rubs off in benefit to society, but it's not directly resultant in benefit to society. Furthermore you can't treat a company as representative of the interests of a group of people because the company is an entity itself. The companies decision making is governed by rules and policies <i>interpreted</i> by the people running it. The people who run it have <i>personal</i> agendas, but when running the companies they have to do it a specific way for a specific set of interests. These interests conflict with those of a normal human being living in the United States.<p>The company is an entity, but not a citizen. It's characterized by policies and rules, and furthermore those policies and rules seek a well defined interest: profit.