A corporation can't take the stand — only a human can be sworn™

The courtroom form of corporations aren't real, and maybe the sharpest. When it matters most — under oath, on the witness stand — the corporation simply cannot appear. It has no mouth to swear, no memory to test, no eyes to hold, no body to cross-examine; it sends lawyers and paper to stand where a person would have to stand. A human must show up, raise a hand, and answer for himself; the ghost never does. So the deepest asymmetry in a courtroom isn't the money or the lawyers — it's that a living person can be sworn and the entity can't, which means only one side of the room can ever actually be caught. Only humans score; only humans testify. Kin: human standing, can't breed, can't bleed, can't die, the Inviolability Test, the Record Is the Arbiter. (A general legal-philosophical argument; names no party and no pending matter — the two-envelopes wall.) (His coin — machine's read, refine to his.)