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can someone comment on issues of libel? why is the url path named "humEn"? also, i'm not sure what you were thinking with the name. slavery?

• smalter 16y ago
  the url path is humen, because that's how rails pluralizes human. the class name is "human". this is my first rails app. i didn't bother to change it out of laziness. yeah see above. chattel has a neutral definition and it's just that chattel is personal property that's movable. throughout us history, people have been thought of as chattel, namely slaves and women. i suppose the site calls all people chattel, and in that way it's somewhat contentless and i don't think it takes a stand on the normative value of slavery and say, women's sufferage. (although i think it's fair to say, boo, slavery, yay, women.) i'm actually a lawyer, and i'm sure that if anyone uses this site to say horrible things about some litigious person (or just really bad things about a normal person), and people actually use this site, then i will have to deal with civil litigation. i suppose there's a moral question as to creating a site in which libel is more freely available, but i'll leave that to the moralists to duke out.