The recent Supreme Court decision on corporation campaign funding

I happen to be very questionable about the recent Supreme Court decision to further protect the rights of corporations (by allowing them to donate a non-regulated amount of funds to political campaigns) under the 1st Amendment (for free speech), this also includes protection under the 14th Amendment (rights of citizens and persons), originally intended for slaves. I due believe that private citizens should be able to own property and not fear "illegitimate" seizure from the government and other citizens. However, I don't actually think that this type of "protection" is really an equitable area in which corporations ought to be included. Corporation's only use their "legal" person status to protect their "pursuit of life, liberty and property", the latter of that being their focus. The other rights in that amendment aren't even an important point of contingency in their operations. All of this is based on a very simple idea that unlike "real" people corporations cannot actually "receive" physical punishment for infractions on the social contract. Instead they usually receive some sort of punitive punishment, which equates to a slap on the wrist. Unlike a "person" corporations don't just feel pain or death from the loss of money. They usually downsize first. They, unlike a "person", can also weather an economic recession for 10-15 years without much change. They have the money, insurance, and time to. They are an immortal entity with an infinite number of descendants who are ready to take charge of the business, resulting in a possibly infinite "lifespan". The only thing they really fear is loss of capital, which can actually "kill" them, as it is their "life blood". However, such a large sum of money is never taken from these companies. Even if it was, the corporation, which is made up of individual stockholders, has rights to not be victim of cruel and unusual punishment. So, in this way they can't be shut down by the government unless they do something EXTREMELY heinous, publicly and premeditated. So, corporations have kind of found a way to "lock" themselves into our society while also usurping power and many of the laws that affect individual citizens/"real" persons along the way. It is this aspect, of not having to follow the "traditional" social standards and punishments of a normal non-"legal" person, that really stabs at me. It is as if we have become less "human" than these immortal, non-human entities. I really hope that this is not the case. If so, our value on human life may have taken a dip somewhere in the stock market that manages our focus on what is important. Money or people?

- Anwar Staggers