• chaircat@lemdro.id
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think waving away being a Luddite just by saying so makes it so.

    I can’t think of a single angle of principled moral theory that makes this okay. Vandalizing or stealing someone else’s property they paid for. Hurting both the restaurant and the customer by depriving them of their food. Holding back progress on an invention that can reduce the need for humans to engage in a type of work that is hard, dangerous at times, and low paid.

    From a purely rational on paper view, it doesn’t look terribly different than saying vandalizing or stealing from delivery vehicles driven by people isn’t wrong. What possible justification could there be for this view besides Ludditism fuck robots?

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      I don’t think that robots should be allowed to take up space on our sidewalks. Sidewalks are meant for people to travel on and we shouldn’t be inconvenienced by having to avoid some annoying-ass robots rolling down the middle of them all the time. They ought to be considered motor vehicles and banned from sidewalks. That being said, stealing people’s deliveries is wrong and I don’t think it’s a good way to combat robots encroaching on our space.

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          I was thinking you could pick them up and set them in nearby bushes or something so it’s out of everyone’s way. You aren’t damaging it and it’s impossible to argue that robots should have right-of-way. If you overturn them, the company might be able to bitch that you scratched the paint or something.

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      I wonder if people had more prospects would crime go down?

      That’s a rhetorical question by the way. Petty crime is a failure of society.

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      groans

      I don’t think waving away being a Luddite just by saying so makes it so.

      Guess you know me better than I know myself.

      From a purely rational on paper view, it doesn’t look terribly different than saying vandalizing or stealing from delivery vehicles driven by people isn’t wrong. What possible justification could there be for this view besides Ludditism fuck robots?

      Imagine thinking humans are rational beings the debate ethics every time they have a feeling. Sometimes you just gotta fuck shit up.