China plans to or perhaps already has set up a population tracking system using national ID cards that contain chips that must be with a person at all times. These chips also contain all sorts of lovely personal information such as religion, work history, where the person lives. That sort of thing.
The Government of course says it's trying to make it easier for police to clean up of crime as they can ask the satelite system where Criminal X is at that exact moment. Or perhaps where Guy Who Wants Ciivl Rights X is at that exact moment. The idea that they may be the same thing to some people isn't important. Besides that's their way of life. Who are we to impose our beliefs on others am I right?
Think how safe the Chinese people will be! Crime will nearly vanish if they pull this off. A person will never be really safe again, but what's a person to people? A person can be easily replaced, but people can't be. We need people to work the factories and keep the fires of industry burning. We need people to keep the wheels of society turning. We can't let anything happen to people.
We don't need persons anymore. We have people for that sort of thing.
Is there any place for persons in the world? Or have persons been shoved out of the way to make room for people? Can persons and people coexist or do they naturally cancel each other out?
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Here's a better way of putting my question as I posted it after a hard day at work around one in the morning. Even I don't quite know what I was talking about now. If there's a sudden plague that no one can find a cure for and people are dying everywhere from then suddenly doctors discover one single person that's naturally immune and the only way to get the cure out of the person is to kill and dissect them do we do it or do we let the person live?
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Persons and people have never gotten along. This is nothing new. History is filled with a person screwing over people stupid enough to let person screw them or people not liking person and killing person.
As for why this always happens, you said it yourself. What's a person to people?
That person would last a week. That's how much time I give before people's fear and panic overrides their sense of morality. They'll rationalize it until they pat themselves on the back for having the courage to do what's necessary to save the people, but that's bullcrap. People are pretty much just talking animals looking out for only themselves. Deep down they don't care about anyone else. They just pretend to because they can't face the truth.
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