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WCDT Strips 3546 to 3550 (14th to 18th August 2017)
Cornelius:
To be honest, May doesn't strike me as the type to go for charity. She has made a point of trying to get her repairs done herself.
Going to a charity may infringe on the independence I think she seeks. Which begs the question at to what her background really is? Perhaps she really was confined to a server in her last job.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: ChipNoir on 18 Aug 2017, 05:41 ---Winslow doesn't need that body, not really. Hanners provides for him everything he needs.
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To argue that Winslow doesn't need a body is the start of a slippery slope.
It used to be that women didn't need to go out, or work, or even think - men provided all of those functions, so that the women could be kept for their single function of having children. Even a historically aware companion AI might well be satisfied with being just that; but equally they might, like Winslow, and like women in the past, start to want more. We shouldn't say that is wrong.
Emperor Norton:
I think one of the reasons that some people have a hard time seeing their privilege is because privilege sounds like something you shouldn't have. And when your privilege is mostly just not being judged by your skin color, something that everyone should have, it doesn't seem like an advantage.
I've always thought the word privilege was a bit weird to define "the state of being that everyone should actually have" but it is the word we have, so whatever.
On the other side, I have had people use the word privilege to shut down my opinion on stuff. Hilariously sometimes based on areas I'm not actually privileged. (Such as my sexuality (I'm bi, have had people try to shut down my opinion by accusing me of being straight.)).
Privilege is a thing and we should be aware of it, but it also shouldn't be used as a blunt instrument to smack people with.
Emperor Norton:
Also, also, just ew on the person who said Winslow didn't need that body. That is. Ew.
People have already stated why.
Cornelius:
--- Quote from: Emperor Norton on 18 Aug 2017, 06:41 ---Privilege is a thing and we should be aware of it, but it also shouldn't be used as a blunt instrument to smack people with.
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This. Aside from anything else you might think to be accomplishing in doing so, you also risk alienating possible allies.
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