Are You A Person or Are You Just A Package of Hamburger?
Posted by freedomforall 2 years, 2 months ago to Philosophy
Excerpt:
"Something strange happened yesterday. At least, it was strange to me. Worrisome, to me. Perhaps worrisome to you as well.
The UPS guy showed up at my house to drop off a package. Nothing strange about that. In fact, very familiar as I’ve had probably hundreds of packages dropped off by the UPS guy at my place over the years. Usually, the UPS guy just leaves whatever it is by the door – which by the way is perfectly safe since my place is well off the road and there are no neighbors or anyone else nearby to see the left package and possibly steal it.
Sometimes, the UPS guy knocks on the door for a signature, to establish chain of custody; that I did, in fact receive the package. Nothing strange there, either.
But yesterday, the UPS guy wanted to scan my driver’s license before leaving the package he’d come to deliver. Not just see it.
I found that very strange. I found it more than that.
Here I was, standing at the door of my house, where I live and where it is recorded I live."
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"Something strange happened yesterday. At least, it was strange to me. Worrisome, to me. Perhaps worrisome to you as well.
The UPS guy showed up at my house to drop off a package. Nothing strange about that. In fact, very familiar as I’ve had probably hundreds of packages dropped off by the UPS guy at my place over the years. Usually, the UPS guy just leaves whatever it is by the door – which by the way is perfectly safe since my place is well off the road and there are no neighbors or anyone else nearby to see the left package and possibly steal it.
Sometimes, the UPS guy knocks on the door for a signature, to establish chain of custody; that I did, in fact receive the package. Nothing strange there, either.
But yesterday, the UPS guy wanted to scan my driver’s license before leaving the package he’d come to deliver. Not just see it.
I found that very strange. I found it more than that.
Here I was, standing at the door of my house, where I live and where it is recorded I live."
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On the bigger question: YES, I am a person who LOVES HAMBURGER...preferably, UN-scanned!
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." - Revelation 13:16-17
I’m glad I’m old. For their sake I hope they get self sufficient.
If in fact it was UPS that told the driver to scan the DL, and not just some plan on the part of the driver to sell your data to a marketing company, I wonder if a refusal to let the document be scanned would really result in the package not being delivered.
I get DHL packages routinely, and all I have to do if I dont want to sign for the package, is reply to a text message- no DL, no scans, just a simple text message check box.
"Never mind. It’s “policy.” It’s the “rules.”
Well, not for me it isn’t. You can keep your package and I will keep my “data” – as well as my dignity – by not playing along with my own conversion into a scannable commodity, like a pack of hamburger at the supermarket."
In this Age of Cognitive Dissonance and NewsSpeak, everything is plausibly deniable. Or deniably plausible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbwBb...