It’s a personal philosophy that I’ve come to use as my own form of religion, and while I’m aware other people have researched the idea, I’m having some trouble finding the name for the concept.

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    Also, they aren’t. That was a news media taking what a judge said and misinterpreting it.

    I don’t know which judge from which government you’re talking about, but the concept of juridical person is widely used across the world. Specially by governments with civil/Roman law. It’s basically a legal tool to assign responsibilities and rights to abstract concepts.

    It’s also descriptively useful to explain why corporations/governments often act in a way that the actual people (i.e. human beings) behind them wouldn’t.

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      It’s also the root of the word “corporation”. An incorporated business is a business which has been given a body.