Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 3006-3010 (20 to 24 July 2015)
Radium_Coyote:
I have a suspicion this is the robot equivalent of bumfights: professional boxing isn't illegal, but under-the-table on-the-sly boxing is.
ReindeerFlotilla:
--- Quote from: Radium_Coyote on 22 Jul 2015, 07:12 ---I have a suspicion this is the robot equivalent of bumfights: professional boxing isn't illegal, but under-the-table on-the-sly boxing is.
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Yeah. Sometimes illegal means "criminal." Other times illegal means "it's okay when we can tax it."
TheBiscuit:
--- Quote from: Random832 on 22 Jul 2015, 06:57 ---
--- Quote from: ReindeerFlotilla on 22 Jul 2015, 03:13 ---It's a particularly semantic question of whether Corpse Witch means that in a perfect world, everyone would be a perfect pacifist, or whether everyone would only engage in activities that, while similar to fighting, on the surface, were not fighting.
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I have a different question. If everything she said was true, then how isn't this such an activity, and why is it illegal?
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I have the same issue with this storyline. It is amusing enough, but it doesn't hold up to scrutiny all that well based on what we know so far. I've been trying to think of some logical way that it could be both so inoffensive and illegal, but I can't think of an answer that convinces me. Of course, the writer will have his way and I'll be happy to see what he comes up with.
Random832:
--- Quote from: bhtooefr on 22 Jul 2015, 07:06 ---So, it could simply be that the laws didn't consider an AI that could fight without injury.
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Right, but in that case why does the law define the chassis as being the AI (so this is like fighting) rather than being property of the AI (so this is like a monster truck rally)? It's not at all obvious why this should be the case (and if it is it raises questions about Momo's legal status).
Zebediah:
Laws are made by politicians. Politicians often aren't the most knowledgeable people about the subjects they legislate, and at times make laws based upon prejudice rather than reasoned thought. Thus we often wind up with laws that are contradictory or downright nonsensical.
Also, in the QCverse AI civil rights are a new thing, and the law is probably not changing rapidly enough to keep up with reality.
Still, as I said before, the thing that's most likely to be illegal is the financial aspect of the whole thing. Never mind the gambling - the IRS frowns on people being paid under the table. Like, really seriously frowns. With their frowniest frowns.
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