Computers are People, Too

By Dorothy Marie

*This is another issue for those god-forsaken rallyists to shread!

Yes, you read the title. Computers are people, too. Throughout my life, I have watched them mature from blank screens, good only for the purpose of drawing geometric figures upon if you were my age, into beautiful sources of everything in the world and beyond. Yet, one thing has remained constant through these blossoming years; people still treat computers like the villain of a movie from the 1930's would beat a dog. It is a horrible sight to behold, and I am very aware that all of you have witnessed the same injustices. I have watched many a Mac beaten heavily with a Louisville Slugger; mouses torn from the body and running balls eaten; keyboards shortcircutted by adding carbonated fruit drinks to their daily diet; speakers used as a modern equivalent of a mideval mace; and, the worst of all, A: drives torn from the CPU and mutilated on the sidewalk, a stream of broken parts spewing from its helpless body. Would you reach inside a human, rip out their reproductive organs, and then proceed to mutilate them on brick walls? Would you tear off their arms, and then chew on their fingers (if you are not already a cannibal)? They have children just as we do (Apple, the grandfather to Microsoft, and so on). Computers do nothing to harm mankind except what mankind has planted into that computer. Apparantly, slavery is to be rewarded with extreme violence. This trait was also exhibited in past times of American inslavement of Africans, and has not yet been lost; it has only been shifted. Each day thousands of computers are beaten, abused physically and emotionally, and even "taken advantage of" in unmentionable ways without any hope of justice in their favor. They give us everything we could possibly need; mail-order food, clothing, shelter, and even friendship (even if you have no one to speak with online, the computer itself is a fine friend to play chess with). Yet, all we give these poor creations in return is hardship and abusive language. Never do we offer a hug, never a kind word or "I love you, Buddy." Tears may short circut your PC or CPU, but it is crying on the inside. Remember the Mechanical Massacre!

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