• Tja@programming.dev
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    Yes, yes they are.

    But that is a shit argument. I’m smarter than a dog, but I trust the dog guarding a property. Trust has nothing to do with intelligence.

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      11 hours ago

      But can you trust a dog to organise your house, cook your food, educate your children and breastfeed your babies?

      Edit: extra phrasing added in italics

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        Do you have a dog that provably can do all those things just fine and is really obedient?
        From their point of view, those fascists had dogs which had human abilities, had the intelligence of a human, and were even more obedient than the four-legged dogs.
        People absolutely will have their robomaid double as a nanny. And the robomaid will also help the kids do their homework while refusing to just give them the solutions.
        Humans in general really love to not have to do stuff themselves.

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          A lot of those people (racist supremacist etc assholes) were also fucking “the help”, and even back then I’m pretty sure it wasn’t considered socially acceptable to fuck animals, nor would anyone ever expect progeny to happen from such. That kinda defeats the argument of non-whites being another species or non-human etc, so it’s more “they’re not human when it comes to rights but human enough for everything else”