Actually, Oscar's legs are not approximations of human legs, either. They are more like a cheetah's hind legs. And the action in his running is very different than a runner with natural legs.

So, Oscar Pistorius' prosthetic legs, which allow him to exceed human capabilities, do not make him less human. But Steve Mann's prosthetic eye, which allows him to exceed human capabilities, does make him less human.

Well, yes, but as I clarified, I am not a fan of basing our reasoning on principles that sound nice in theory, but don't reflect reality. I'm not against abstract thought as a concept, I'm against saying things like, I dunno, "oh, we didn't give CONSENT for those glasses to film us! What horrid INJUSTICE!" (in a…

As I understood the explanation, when the glasses were damaged, they stopped writing new images to temporary memory. In normal use, the image of the first employee would have been over-written.

Well, first, their rights definitely do not allow them to assault this person. Secondly, while I've been talking about video recording and so on, and I was thinking about potential reactions to Google Glass in my responses, in this specific case it should be noted that the actual device used by Mann was not intended…

Well hey, he's his own property! If he wants to attach a camera to his own property, i.e. his face, who are you to say no? :P

So, how about if somebody has a prosthetic leg? Or a cochlear implant? Or a pacemaker? Would you say those things make one less human, as well?

Everyone has a different standard of justice, and laws, just or otherwise, are needed to keep half of the population from killing the other half over such disagreements.

We have laws to ensure that violence is not used by vigilante goons to enforce their own particular vision of justice on other people. Someone taking a picture of you does not entitle you to tear things off of their face, or tear up their documents, or push them around. If you think it does, and then actually act on…

Or, perhaps he didn't feel the need to bore us with every detail of his eating McDonald's. Seriously, we don't need a blow by blow of Steve vs. A Royale with Cheese.

"Does his glasses look like it has that much memory?"

God I hate this "there's something he's not telling us!" victim blaming. Someone tried to rip glasses off of his head. I don't care what he's hiding. Punish the McDonald's workers for the crime that there is photographic evidence they committed, and *then* bitch about this guy doing "publicity stunts" or whatever.