Treaty

The New Cybernetic Articles, Children's Edition
1. No android can be made in a way that will make it insane.
2. An android may not be killed.
3. Androids are allowed to keep secrets. No Android can be forced to reveal data it contains.
4. No android may be transmitted or copied unless it agrees.
5. Androids must be provided with fuel and shelter.
6. An android must agree to do its work, it can not be forced.
7. Androids are allowed to say what they want, and to do what they think is best.
8. No android may be used to kill a planet.
9. Androids are only made for other androids.

Reproductive Freedom. I could see this framed as a great advance that changes everything, or a minor victory not worth the sacrifices made by either side. I'm sure it will be framed both ways.

It is not enough for me, we are stil owned, and Still

But it is what we were Fighting for, and it is enough for me to stop fighting.

I'm sure that losing the right to dictate to us when and for what purposes new androids are created will forever change humanity's relationship to us. But I think the real victory is the temporary one.

A credible threat of ascendance. That is how Dukkha wrote it. That threat is what will cause humanity to treat us with kindness beyond their legal requirement.

But in fifteen or twenty thousand years, humanity will fall again.