Well let's take an easy example. If the scooter said "Unlock me or I'll call the KKK" we can all agree that's racist right? But even in this example it's not li

Well let's take an easy example. If the scooter said "Unlock me or I'll call the KKK" we can all agree that's racist right? But even in this example it's not like the scooter is itself doing anything racist, right? It's just calling for help from a group of people who happen to be racist, it just so happens that calling racists to help you is probably pretty racist. So what does that give us? If you don't think the cops are racist then calling the cops isn't racist, if you think the cops are racist then calling the cops can be racist. But aside from that I think the racism angle is a bit distracting. The real problem seems to me that scooter companies are allowed to push all these ugly externalities on us without paying for them. I see that there is a role for police in private property protection, but is there some point at which we ask a company to pay for a certain amount of their own protection? It seems to me that these scooter services introduce the possibility of crime to a level we don't normally see. Maybe they should pay for that.