What will we protest?

--- In ssi_list@... "Paul D. Fernhout"
> > Imagine you're living up in Island 1, 2 or 3. What the heck will
> > people protest about.
>
> Those people with stars tattoed on their bellies are allowed first
> choice of loacation at beach paries. This is plainly unfair to
those
> with a philosophical aversion to bodily alteration! (See, Dr.
Seuss's
> the Sneetches).
>
http://www.geocities.com/uulongviewtx/sermons/bellies_with_stars.html
>
> Are the habitats' AIs entitle to human or corporate rights?
>
> Should medical resources be devoted to brain-dead patients?
>
> What constitutes acceptable surveillance? And should the
information be
> available to all or just "authorities"?
>
> Will copyrights or patents claimed by Earth-bound entities be
honored?
>
> In the sport of moopsball, how many frisbees should flingers be
allowed
> to replicate?
>
> What sort of human forms are acceptable issuing from the medical
bays?
>
> Does merging with a computer bank count as suicide or life-
extension?
> What happens to the person's bank accounts? Does the computer gain
> control of them?
>
> What should the foreign policy of the habiats be in regards to a
distant
> conflict over mining rights on another asteroid?
>
> How much research should be devoted to defense against rogue
nanonbots?
>
> Should kids be required to unhook from virtual reality?
>
> Etc.
>
> --Paul

Now that's showing imagination! I liked it. It tends to reinforce my
thoughts that protests, like much other human activities, will act
like gas laws, the protests will expand to fill a vacuum, regardless
of the issues at hand. Something will tend to bug people and they'll
need to voice their displeasure.

TangoMan