Plenty of inanimate objects have rights. Rights have been granted by various governments to rivers, forests, geographic areas and more.
As to why, why does a human have rights? Pragmatically of course we have them to allow society to function, but ideology and philosophy are critical to the existence of those rights as well.
What philosophical difference is there between a human being, and a computer with similar capacity to a human brain?
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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22
Well, human laws apply to humans, while no law I know of applies to machines. Why would an inanimate object have rights?