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2015-11-09

by shaenon on November 9, 2015 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Looking Glass Land
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  1. Frank
    November 9, 2015, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    Uh-oh. Things never go well when an empire creates a “non-citizen” class

    • CCC
      November 9, 2015, 6:24 am | # | Reply

      To be fair, most of the problems will be mitigated by the fact that non-citizens can (and, apparently, can fairly easily) join the citizen class.

      • Fal Leithani
        September 25, 2016, 7:16 pm | # | Reply

        Mitigated only slightly, and sometimes not at all. People want to be able to choose their own path AND be treated with full personhood status, at the same time.

        The reason why a non-citizen class always ends badly is because it blatantly violates that dream, even for people who are willing and able to do no harm and contribute to the greater good.

        Life may be *naturally* unfair, but the only aspects of civilization which don’t inevitably crumble under their own weight over time are the ones which make life more fair then it would otherwise be.

    • Mental Mouse
      November 9, 2015, 7:58 am | # | Reply

      Pardon? It’s less than 300 years ago that the U.S started in with these crazy ideas about “universal” citizenship (meaning guys who didn’t even own land), and we’ve had a few hitches along the way…

      • darkstarling
        November 9, 2015, 11:46 am | # | Reply

        I think I can say without much fear of contradiction that we were worse off before we had universal citizenship.

        • s854
          November 9, 2015, 5:59 pm | # | Reply

          My impression is that non-citizens are being exploited (knowing that the authorities won’t help them if they complain) all around the world.

          What’s happening here seems to be more akin to a mad version of a rite of passage.

    • WJS
      July 27, 2019, 3:11 pm | # | Reply

      While citizenship shouldn’t be linked to race, basically every country in the world has citizens and non-citizens and always has.

      • awgiedawgie
        July 27, 2019, 11:57 pm | # | Reply

        And the citizen class there isn’t linked to race. It’s linked to species.

  2. Casey
    November 9, 2015, 1:09 am | # | Reply

    If this is how she responds to a cat, imagine what she gets like when she sees a squirrel.

    • Barking Monkey
      November 9, 2015, 6:02 am | # | Reply

      Or a dogs true worst enemy; a Vacuum cleaner.

      • Miyaa
        November 9, 2015, 6:58 am | # | Reply

        Cats would join dogs in declaring vacuums their #1 enemy.

        • Moe Lane
          November 9, 2015, 12:30 pm | # | Reply

          Mine is almost ready to not run away when I turn it on.

          Almost.

      • Shadowmehr
        November 9, 2015, 8:06 pm | # | Reply

        Actually, I can see Sweetheart doing all the vacuuming at their apartment while U.N.I.T.Y. hides on top of the furniture.

        • darkstarling
          November 9, 2015, 8:16 pm | # | Reply

          This

  3. Robert Nowall
    November 9, 2015, 6:32 am | # | Reply

    Then you must be talking out of your belly button, Sweetheart.

  4. Robert Nowall
    November 9, 2015, 8:17 am | # | Reply

    It’s a rule of thumb offhand-o,
    That we animals make better citizens if changed like this.
    It’s an awful fright offhand-o,
    Finding out that once-were-humans populate this seminar.
    Will the program overcome?
    And make them into animals leaving not a scar?

    It is possible offhand-o,
    That the change will make a better world that in turn-ally.
    But it worries me offhand-o,
    That you’re changing all the humans and it’s all a bigger lie.
    And it bothers me to say,
    Is making beasts of men like this worth a try?

    There is something in that mutant blight
    That feels so right offhand-o.
    It worked out fine for you and me
    I guarantee offhand-o.
    Though I didn’t think that I could refuse.
    I don’t regret.
    If you want a recommend,
    I will again offhand-o.

    —“Fernando,” Abba.

  5. BMunro
    November 9, 2015, 5:48 pm | # | Reply

    Her intellect is flawless. Her instincts, on the other hand…

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