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mugasofer's avatar

But you are not obligated to drink them.

Yes, this would interfere with em manufacturers who don't start them off with all these listed things. That's kind of the point. But as long as the ems can waive these rights there's nothing stopping them from taking advantage of opportunities that involve violating them.

This just stops people making ems in order to abuse them.

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Tyrrell_McAllister's avatar

No, such reasoning says people cannot be forced to live in a geographically isolated area, but they may still choose to live there.

I think that you misunderstand Robin's analogy.

Robin is rebutting the argument that it would be wrong for rich and powerful ems to choose to run so fast that poor ems can't interact with the rich. That argument claims that the rich would then be wrongfully excluding poor ems from the spaces where the rich and powerful decide everyone's fate. Poor ems, it is said, should have a right to have their voices heard in the halls of power.

Robin counters that a similar argument could be made against the right of the rich to live in isolated locations (isolated from the poor, that is). If the rich all chose to live on a private island that can be accessed only by private jet, then the poor would similarly be cut off from physical access to the halls of power.

Robin takes it as given that the argument for the right of the poor to keep the rich from living in isolated places is a bad one, so he concludes that the argument for the right of poor ems to keep rich ems from running too fast is also bad.

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