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The problem is that we really want companies (especially, in the U.S., U.S. companies) to build planes. So we need a regulatory regime that appropriately governs their behavior but also does not result in such draconian penalties for negligence that they decide it would be safer to invest in some other business.

Not to say we've struck exactly the right balance, necessarily. But there's just no logic in making a direct comparison between a company that made an error in designing am aircraft and an individual who flew a plane into the ground on purpose.

>>pdabba+(OP)
There is logic. When you do an investigation the threads will point to individuals and people with names.

Those people should be punished for murder.

Instead the concept of a corporation ends up abstracting the details away and blurring responsibility.

If our justice system was truly just it would seek out and charge named individuals for crimes.

This has the effect of being in actuality more just but it also prevents the entire corporation from pulling off crimes like this as no one can hide behind the protection of the corporation.

It's not that there is "no logic." But that there is fundamental illogic in the way it all works.