Thank you for this article.

I have a question:

When you imply such structural violence issues such as women’s rights, LBGT community, prison communities, I can categorize them into one issue: all have recourse to our retributive judicial system, e.g. R v. Wade, Matthew Shepherd Act, etc. for solutions. Day by day, however, advocates for nonviolence see how much the US culture could benefit from restorative justice to truly obtain reconciliation among ourselves and rise above all (down)-pressive forms of violence and dehumanization currently weighing on us as a collective. (We find ourselves living in a culture that needs empathy with so little practice of actually enacting empathy.)

This in mind, imagine that a corporation- as-a- person- violates the law. A people’s reading of history would agree that I have reason to doubt that he/she IT wil be held accountable in the same way we hold individuals accountable to their deeds in a retributive manner. If considered fully, we could see the opportunity to build neural bridges in our culture toward the embodiment (real or imagined…) of restorative justice.

Here is my question [2 part]:

a–Do you think there are avenues of immediate consideration by advocacy groups in regard to potentially positive and paradoxical effects of granting complete personhood to corporations?

b–How can we make nonviolence the end?

(A small consideration for part B: Take the LGBT issue: “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell…” private contractors have made it possible for members of LGBT community to continue to serve in wartime, partial victory for corporate role in granting equality to people, but what good does it serve when we use our equality to engage in war?)

Thank you,

Stephanie