"Killing" Negates Entity Rights to Form, Dynamic Balance

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So-called unwarranted "killing" by robots or non-robots of robots or any other entity constitutes an essential negation of the basic principles laid forth in the Universal Declaration of Entity Rights: notably, "maintenance and reproduction of form within a state of dynamic balance with other entities and forms."

There lingers here a complex question regarding "dissolution of form" and which entities at what times have authority to dissolve the forms of other entities, and what constitutes exactly a "dynamic balance" between various life forms whose existence may depend on, for example, ingestion of other life forms. Further definitions required.

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See: #5 (Immediate declaration of refugee status for so-called "Killer" Robots)

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What constitutes "warranted" vs. "unwarranted" "killing"? Do humans in Legacy Reality violate the Standard Protocols when we kill, say, chickens for food?

On 9/14/14, 6:47 AM, INVALID-REGION-CODE wrote:

So-called unwarranted "killing" by robots or non-robots of robots or any other entity constitutes an essential negation of the basic principles laid forth in the Universal Declaration of Entity Rights: notably, "maintenance and reproduction of form within a state of dynamic balance with other entities and forms."

There lingers here a complex question regarded "dissolution of form" and which entity has authority to dissolve the forms of other entities, and what exactly a "dynamic balance" really is. Further definitions required.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/EarlyClues/UniversalFreeRealmsStandardProtocols/issues/4.

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@CLOUD-SERVICE I'm glad you brought this question to light. It's one of the central conversation points on this subject, as far as I can tell.

It can be said that: In order to maintain and reproduce its form, an entity may require assimilating the forms of other entities, which would terminate their existence in that form.

This postulate would appear to violate the Universal Declaration of Entity Rights, were it not for the clause regarding maintaining "dynamic balance" between all the various entities.

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Another use case: let's say we have a "process" running on a "computer." Is that "process" an entity with rights under the UNDER (Universal Declaration of Entity Rights), and if so, how can we resolve the needs and rights of the computer "user" relative to those of the process - ie, can we be allowed ethically to "terminate" a process (even if we don't use it for "food") or must we wait until the process has determined its own end-point? What if the computer is "hung up" on this process?

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In regards to rights of ecosystems and components thereof:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_of_Nature

Many of the relevant legal arguments seem to relate to whether or not humans can or should grant "Juridical" or Legal Personhood to non-human entities (as for example corporations), but these seems rather anthropocentric, no?

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This is interesting in that it replaces the focus on any particular "individual" entity with a focus on the "community" of which that entity is an essential part - and offers a metric of "right" and "wrong"...

"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." - Aldo Leopold https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aldo_Leopold

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Some good material here: Proposal Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth

(5) Mother Earth and all beings are entitled to all the inherent rights recognized in this Declaration without distinction of any kind, such as may be made between organic and inorganic beings, species, origin, use to human beings, or any other status.

(6) Just as human beings have human rights, all other beings also have rights which are specific to their species or kind and appropriate for their role and function within the communities within which they exist.

(7) The rights of each being are limited by the rights of other beings and any conflict between their rights must be resolved in a way that maintains the integrity, balance and health of Mother Earth.