@sim It was a while before I finally realized what the scam was but they always made me more than a little unsure of their value as "rights". I don't remember what I read that finally put it into coherent terms, but once I figured out the oblation issue, it all makes sense.
Rights are an individual concept, not a collective one. It's the same as with justice. You cannot receive justice for a group, and you cannot punish a group and have justice. You punish an individual, and you seek restitution from that individual against whom the individual committed the crime.
Occasionally there's an attempt to justify going after a group entity like a corporation, but it's always meaningless. PG&E was convicted of 84 cases of involuntary manslaughter for their role in the 2018 Camp Fire in California, but the conviction is fundamentally meaningless. They were ordered to pay a fine and fees totally $4 million, but nobody was personally liable. That's less than $50k per person they killed.
The whole thing is a farce, and the extent of their crime was apparently not maintaining their power lines very well - how do you hold someone individually responsible for that? Nobody was individually liable and nobody was individually imprisoned or otherwise punished, and the cost just rolls back to the customers.
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