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by dragonwriter
971 days ago
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> We want to live in a world with no discrimination of people's rights based on their hardware, because that's generally not changeable. Why is not changeable relevant? > But we will absolutely still continue to discriminate on the software running in your brain. The First Amendment is rather exactly about not doing that. |
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Because I at least hold the ideal that we should judge people not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. No individual gets to choose the genes they inherit, but they do have some level of agency over how they choose to operate in the world.
> The First Amendment is rather exactly about not doing that.
True, but the system in place that enforces the first amendment and the entire Constitution ultimately depends on the vast majority of people to agree and comply with that base ideology. The system of governance isn't omnipotent or omnipresent enough to defend against a large enough minority of the population becoming hostile to these ideals.
This is the big reason why Trump's violation of the tradition of the peaceful transfer of power is so horrific, because it threatened the foundation of consensus that lets our system operate as a democracy that non destructively lets the best ideas and leaders rise to the top.