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WCDT: 2397-2401 (4-8 March, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Game and Watch Forever:
I... think I need a wallpaper of this strip.
Zebediah:
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 04 Mar 2013, 06:41 ---I suspect I'm the only person here whose species has been debated. Not for long, the medical team quickly came to he decision that I was rightly classified as H.Sap... but it was reasonable to consider the question. Even I thought so, after seeing the blood tests.
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Seriously? There was actually a medical question about your species? To say that I'm appalled is to greatly understate my reaction to this.
If I'm overreacting, it's because I grew up in the American South, where one occasionally runs into an idiot who will offer up the opinion that people who aren't white aren't homo sapiens and therefore aren't entitled to human rights. These people always make me see red. Even more so when they assume that I'd agree with them because I'm white - I always quickly and in no uncertain terms disabuse them of that assumption. So I'm primed to respond with outrage whenever a person's basic humanity is questioned.
If and when we get to the point where we actually do have non-human (or even part-human) intelligent life, I imagine I'll be one of the people advocating for "person" to be defined broadly rather than narrowly. Civil rights for all people, damn it, because I refuse to be part of a master race.
Valdís:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 04 Mar 2013, 08:04 ---If I'm overreacting, it's because I grew up in the American South, where one occasionally runs into an idiot who will offer up the opinion that people who aren't white aren't homo sapiens and therefore aren't entitled to human rights. These people always make me see red. Even more so when they assume that I'd agree with them because I'm white - I always quickly and in no uncertain terms disabuse them of that assumption. So I'm primed to respond with outrage whenever a person's basic humanity is questioned.
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Let me guess.. They simultaneously rant about interracial baby-making? *Hint-hint* ;)
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 04 Mar 2013, 08:04 ---Civil rights for all people, damn it, because I refuse to be part of a master race.
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On a related note: Keep in mind that the "Over-man" (Übermensch) has nothing to do with a Master-Slave relation, it has to do with the Self-realized man transcending dogma and forging their own path. The "Master race" of the past was just dogma. Contrast with Transhumanism. Yay, superior humanity!
cesium133:
So I assume that a robot game of Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots would involve calculations of the maximum frequency at which the button could be pressed without breaking the game?
Zebediah:
--- Quote from: Valdís on 04 Mar 2013, 08:23 ---Let me guess.. They simultaneously rant about interracial baby-making? *Hint-hint* ;)
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Hence my use of the term "idiot." :-D
--- Quote from: Valdís on 04 Mar 2013, 08:23 ---On a related note: Keep in mind that the "Over-man" (Übermensch) has nothing to do with a Master-Slave relation, it has to do with the Self-realized man transcending dogma and forging their own path. The "Master race" of the past was just dogma. Contrast with Transhumanism. Yay, superior humanity!
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What I'm against is any kind of legally defined "master race", where one genetically or racially defined group has more rights under the law than another. If transhumanists realize their goals and actually engineer something "superior" to homo sapiens, fine, but I'm not offering them any more rights because of it. On the flip side, I won't try to take their rights away either.
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