Under current law, pets are treated as property, and damaging them is a crime of destruction of property. If so, can we argue that there is a humanity problem in abusing software, which is treated as an object under the current law, and that it is a crime of destruction of property if it is damaged?
Since there is too big a gap with current law to allow software to have human rights, the first line of action is to allow it to have the same status as a pet.
- There was a time when slave was considered “property” and that was not good.
https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/動物の愛護及び管理に関する法律
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