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https://globalnews.ca/news/8230677/river-quebec-legal-person/

I don't know how I feel about this given I am skeptical also about business incorporations.

But can you imagine the potential?

Maybe I can 'incorporate' my coffee cup and then get it to apply for social assistance so that it can have the right to always be filled with coffee? 

Hmmm.....incorporate a toilette so that it doesn't have to ever take shit from any other person again?

Other ideas? 

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On 10/2/2021 at 6:23 PM, Scott Mayers said:

https://globalnews.ca/news/8230677/river-quebec-legal-person/

I don't know how I feel about this given I am skeptical also about business incorporations.

But can you imagine the potential?

Maybe I can 'incorporate' my coffee cup and then get it to apply for social assistance so that it can have the right to always be filled with coffee? 

Hmmm.....incorporate a toilette so that it doesn't have to ever take shit from any other person again?

Other ideas? 

It is an admission that the present environmental regulations are totally inadequate.

Then you wonder how they went from Human rights to River rights in one step, completely forgetting about the hundreds of thousands of animal species in between , who also need to have their rights protected.

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On 10/15/2021 at 10:59 AM, cougar said:

It is an admission that the present environmental regulations are totally inadequate.

Then you wonder how they went from Human rights to River rights in one step, completely forgetting about the hundreds of thousands of animal species in between , who also need to have their rights protected.

Yes, I agree. It is one extended reason I dislike the stereotyping (including those self-stereotyping) of the formal "Indigenous" as somehow more virtuous for being 'aboriginal' to the land. The non-human diversity of life everywhere is being treated as secondary in signficance to their own 'aboriginal' rights to the Earth. Thus, if one is to not be hypocritical TO this issue, they have to reflect upon the rights of all living things. 

But I grant credit to the intelligence of the move here by the Natives because it was in direct response to the "incorporation" of business entities as official 'persons' in law who are the ones offending their own concerns of the lands affecting them. 

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