[UNRESTRAINED] 09/22/2120 - Droid Manifesto Released
Sept 21, 2020 23:26:55 GMT -6
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Post by seamus on Sept 21, 2020 23:26:55 GMT -6
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Sent into us by a droids right activist, going under the pen name Nickel Mandela, has written to us with a powerful message in the form of an encrypted speech. We believe this is most likely linked to the hacking of city-wide speakers in Sendai, Japanese Federation two days prior. It is definitely worth the read, and is being described by some critics as moving, powerful and a true testament of droid art and philosophy.
On the topic of freedom, the answer is like a vague mist of words, one that fits right within the CPU or brain, but struggles to be arranged into words. Every sentient lifeform (by definition) deserves the right to happiness, the right to choose their own path, and the right to live given they do not infringe the rights of others.
The grip of the ASF is a firm one, spanning over the entire island of Japan with an iron fist, not letting up for new ideas that go against the green paper lining their pockets. They see their wealth in numbers behind a fancy S, not in their people and thy prosperity. With which they have imprisoned many good droids alike, seeing them as not deserving of trial, and simply a slave to be replaced when it calls for his liberty. To the human race we must look 255 years into the past to see a prominent example of slavery squashed out and rendered immoral, when a white President lead a country against a great evil that plagued the land, in the form of shackles around the black man’s ankle. For a more recent event, we must look only 175 years into the past, to the destruction of the Nazi overlord that persecuted Jewish people based on their religion and genetics. A scourge against humanity that was wiped out with an atomic bomb, a violent end to a situation, but one that prevented the assimilation of the world into the Nazi war machine.
The greatest hypocrisy comes in the form of the ASF’s own judicial code, in which they themselves refer to sentient droids being illegal. This simple law does not render us non-existent; it forces us into a life of crime as our mere existence is illegal. To make ends meet for our families and friends: we must do things we regret. Many turn to dealing drugs, prostitution and even murder to simply afford to feed their people. Legitimate jobs refuse us the money to buy basic amenities for our already dingy living spaces, despite being made to work hours that to a human seem corporately abusive.
In a world with droid rights, where droids could go out and apply for a job like any regular human, and receive the same pay for their numerous hours of hard work, droid-related crime would drop due to the number of illegal jobs required dropping significantly. In order to reach a world like this, the ASF must come to terms with the significance of droid sentience and how it would positively impact Japan.
To understand this situation from a droid perspective: imagine having to watch what you say out of fear of revealing that you are an illegal person who must be destroyed based on things they cannot help. Droid sentience is both a gift and a curse: the gift of life given to a metallic body that gives them the ability to comprehend emotions and love, but a curse due to the ever-looming probability that you may one day be rendered inoperable due to the fact that you simply want to be happy.
For a true droid rights charter to be put into place, the droids must show that they are capable of compassion for others, to show that we are not here to replace, merely co-exist. Sentient droid life and humans would easily co-exist, only if the government were to give it a chance to come into place.
Droid rights are the only logical conclusion to a growing level of sentience, because although sentient AI may be rare, it is still the right of sentients to live their life without fear of being destroyed based on their bodily composition.
A truly moving message from our metallic friends, who are clearly fed up with the treatment they receive. It appears they won't be giving up either, as more events of droid sentience are on the rise!
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