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https://www.phillyvoice.com/philly-woman-arrested-uber-eats-robot-protest/
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Robots in a public space have now more rights than humans. Fuck this.
Capital has more rights than humans.
This got me thinking about how its illegal to ride bicycles on the sidewalk yet these little motorized carts are allowed but how?
In liberal democracies property has always had more weight than human lives.
That's not specific to liberal democracies. Liberal democracies tend to be more respectful of human rights than other types of societies. As such they are constantly under attack by internal and external forces that place property before life. It seems they always succeed in bringing democracies down. But that's not per se the fault of liberal democracies.
Placing property before life is a defining feature of liberal democracies. Its the concept they are founded upon. Protecting private property is their guiding light. Bourgeois liberals will always sacrifice the lives of however many they have to in an effort to protect their property. Human rights are only allowed in so much as they allow for stability in that protection.
"protecting private property is their guiding light" -- that was true in ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, the mediaeval feudal societies, in Nazi Germany, etc etc. Beyond small tribal societies you are hard pressed to find an example where property wasn't more important than people. That's true for the so called communist states too, just the property technically wasn't private (in practice it was, no wonder oligarchs emerged from its collapse). And yes, it is true in lib democracies too, but with the added counter-idea of humab rights which most other societies lack(ed).
Except its not true in a lot of your examples. Part of the reason the age of liberal revolutons took place was to secure private property rights for that Bourgeois class. To stop a king from being able to seize private property whenever they want. To stop a state from saying the state owns all of the property. You mentioned ancient greece, well think back to Athens then. When they discovered a silver mine near the city they didn't say it should belong to the person who discovered it or the person who bought the mine, they said it should be used for the public good to build a fleet. That's not private property. That's a concept which would cause liberal democracies to murder people in the streets over.
We are not arguing about who owns property in various societies, or what societies had more private property vs state owned property. We talk about which societies placed human rights above property rights. You can be sure the ancient Athenians sent slaves to work those silver mines. Not very humane if you ask me.
Please tell me you are not gonna bring up slavery in the context of liberal democracies. Cause I mean, come on. You really want to set me up that perfectly?
You are arguing with yourself not with me. I never said liberal democracies don't place property before humans. All I originally said was that other societies placed property before humans, not just liberal democracies. To which you said my example of ancient Greece was wrong, because the state owned some silver mines. To which I said that's not a good argument, because they still used slaves. Like some lib democracies used to too, I am aware. As a clue, they abolished slavery, which very few other societies did, but it's kind of beside my main point, see above. If you want to argue, argue with that, not with stuff I never said.
EDIT: I am not even saying that liberal democracy is good. I think it is better than a lot of other systems. It's still very flawed, and partly because it cannot synthetize property rights with human rights. At least it keeps trying .
Nah, liberal democracies are generally partly socialist in limited but notable ways, and common property is not unusual. Nobody is massacring groups over the ideological principle of public highways, or nature preserves, or recreation centres, or national corporations. I mean, in Canada, for instance, people died due to colonialism, but that’s a different, if related story. It’s a very capitalist society with a bunch of popular collective property and “crown” (nominally state-owned) corporations.
Economic systems historically overlap. We still have shreds of feudalism hanging around.
How exactly do you justify separating colonialism from liberalism?
In the same way we separate yellowjackets from paper wasps, even though those with phobias call them all bees.
Colonialism is a type of imperialism that maintains economic and social subjugation of the (usually) remote region, and may or may not involve some form of genocide. It’s a geopolitical term describing historical aspects of imperialism, and spills over into doctrine and ideology, which is maybe why you are conflating the terms.
Liberal, and liberalism, in the narrow non-colloquial but generally pejorative usage that you are implying, refers to a doctrine of possessive individualism. That leads to colonialism, via imperialism, yes, but they are not the same.
They're not one to one the same of course but they are intrinsically linked. Colonialism only was able to operate through liberalism. Colonial Charter companies is the means through which colonial imperialism was spread. You can't say they're not related. Every fiber of their beings are related. You could honestly say that liberalism wouldn't exist without colonialism and certainly vice versa.
Are you reading OK? I said they were linked.
It’s still conflation of discrete but related, and yes in some respects dependent concepts to suggest that they are entirely synonymous. Yellowjackets are not bees.
I don't think the robot has MORE rights, the question here is if it should have ANY rights.
A person is not allowed to constantly block another person either, and refuse to stop even when police order it?
I also don't think it is allowed for a robot to constantly block a person. That would be a malfunction.
IMO if the robots can't navigate properly to not be unnecessarily in the way, they should not be allowed. But be sure to have a phone recording of that before "retaliating".
A person is not allowed to constantly block another person either, and refuse to stop even when police order it?
She didn't tho. A person would simply have walked around her, she is allowed to stand on the sidewalk and not move.
Also, we're not actually talking about the robot's rights, we're talking about the rights of a for profit company to operate their equipment. When a delivery robot goes on strike and tries to organize their workplace we should definitely talk about robots' rights, but I don't think that will happen anytime soon.
I agree, protesting and demonstrating are one thing, but you have to know when you've made your point and let it go. If there are that many robots traveling in that area, she can make her point briefly over and over and be more of an impact. Repeated resistance with media coverage will get others to maybe even join in, or at least don't use a company that does it. This is a one-off where her message got lost in the question on if she pushed her rights too far.
She got notices. We're discussing it. There will be more people doing this. She has achieved exactly what her protest sought to achieve
You're probably right in retrospect. People will copy this, and it will become a problem, and the police, who are there to protect property are going to do just that. My point was just there might be better ways to do this instead of directly. Other blockade and sit-in tactics for other topics have gotten the attention they were there for, but didn't change the actual problem. We'll see how this goes as it gets worse.
There are other ways. But better isn't the word I'd use. There isn't any one tactic that gets anything done. Which is why you must employ a diversity of tactics. This is part of that.
We're literally only reading this article because she got arrested.
It is not a one off she does it all the time and she said plans to continue doing it.
Here is a video of her from a few weeks ago.
https://youtube.com/shorts/1Jb-D6fIjXg
Yeah, actually it makes sense. They are property and the pigs' objective is to protect property.
i feel for you and this poor woman. being attacked by fascist robots wherever you go
dementia is cruel
That was somebody's food they were blocking.