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Justice for the masses

jeudi 23 février 2023 à 11:18

People who are frantic will propose widepread mistreatment to deal with occasional injustices. Here is an example: to protect gig ride drivers from robberies (which occasionally escalate into killings) by requiring every passenger to prove per identity with an official document.

A person whose SO has been killed by criminals can easily demand a massive system of injustice to reduce such crimes. Even, as in this example, to demand it as an afterthought added to other measures that ought to be sufficient by themselves.

A person in that situation can lose sight of the enormity of the demand perse is making on millions of others.

One of the main injustices of gig ride dis-services as they are today — one of the reasons that they merit the term "dis-services" — is tracking passengers: they require passengers to identify themselves by using cell phones and payment cards. Apparently robbers have a way to avoid being tracked; what can it be? Perhaps they steal phones and payment cards to use for this. That is not an option for a law-abiding person; our only way to protect ourselvss from tracking dis-services is to reject them entirely.

But even though these dis-services are unjust already, changes in practices that make the tracking more strict and pervasive are important to fight against. Please join in.