By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026Human beings are the most valuable things in our world and they are literally priceless. Murder isn't "theft of life." Rape isn't "theft of sex." 18/ 1538
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026While insurers and civil courts have ways of calculating the "price" of an injury or violation, great care has been taken over the centuries to ensure that this does not turn human beings into commodities. 19/ 1360
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026You can't buy a "murder offset" that lets you kill people provided you pay into a fund that saves a human somewhere else: pluralistic.net/2021/04/14/f... 20/pluralistic.netPluralistic: 14 Apr 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 2382
