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by 13of40 1060 days ago
The right to repair is a direct extension of "banging the rocks together" - i.e. toolmaking, the main thing that defines us as humans. How can that not be a human right?
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> the main thing that defines us as humans. How can that not be a human right?

Plenty of animals use tools [1]. And this isn’t how we define human rights. Bipedalism is quintessentially human, that doesn’t make tunnels a crime against humanity.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool_use_by_non-humans

I'm fine giving the animals the right to repair as well.