I feel like, if someone felt like puzzling it out, the two interesting routes to take would be “did a jew make this food, if they made this machine/loaded this machine/ordered the machine to make food?” (That last one is particularly promising/tangled because of the rules regarding gentiles preparing food with Jewish supervision: does it count as observing because it’s not like you have the ability Stop the machine if it does something wrong.)
The question of “is the requirement for kosher slaughter removed if the meat was never alive?” gets fancy. Maybe if the meat that they scanned to produce the Meat Data from was kosher slaughtered, that would suffice? This is, I feel, an argument going on in the background of every star trek show.
But to know that we kinda have to know where a replicator is getting its data? Is it doing synthesis or reduplication of scanned foods? Does your kosher brisket contain components of a non-kosher cut that contained other qualities you asked for (like marbling or age?)
I think the even deeper question is, knowing how smart starfleet ships are, could one convert to Judaism, and would that solve the replicator problem?
I can only think of one actually sentient Starfleet ship (as opposed to being a space Alexa) in the entirety of Trek canon – the Discovery’s computer is sentient now – and I think that would be the absolute minimum requirement for converting. So possibly that one ship could.
It’s frustrating to see the same kind of emotionally charged rhetoric, community policing, arguments from disgust, and appeals to authority and tradition that lead to fascism and genocide…
And it’s a bunch of 14 year olds arguing about which Barbie dolls it’s okay to play kissie kiss with.
Thinks you should write or draw anything that you want to.
Discourages harassment and threats against any person, calls out and rejects community members who engage in harassment behavior.
Focused positively; share and comment on works and opinions that they enjoy.
Uplift and encourage other members of their community.
Try to discuss discourse with rationality, facts, maturity and kindness.
Uplift and support survivors and mentally ill creators, even when their trauma and illness can be messy or unpleasant.
Antiship community:
Wants to control what you can create and enjoy in fiction.
Polices it’s community through negativity, harassment and death threats.
Focused negatively; criticizes and tears down works thet don’t like rather than positively enjoying what makes them happy.
Constantly monitor other community members to harass, reject and threaten them for any perceived sin.
Approach discourse from a position of disgust and personal emotion, refuse to listen to reasoned arguments or read relevant science, respond to attempts to communicate with slurs, threats and other emotional violence.
Disregard the trauma, feelings and experiences of survivors and the mentally ill the moment those people don’t fall in line with their views.
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Kaoru โฆ๐บ|| AKA: Kaoru Saga (Baofu), Diamonds Droog, Peko Pekoyama, Yellow Pearl, Adrien Toomes, Yuri Leclerc, Raymond Vester, Sebastian Moran.
Felix ๐บ๐ฆ|| AKA: Felix Fraldarius, Tatsuya Sudou, Ethan Winters, Karkat Vantas, Logan Howlett, Demon Dragon King Gaav, Yamato Ishida, Angelia (Girls Frontline), Franklin Clinton
Rapture โจ๐|| AKA: Rapture (Jem), Rose Winters, Kanaya Maryam, Rogue (Marvel) Gatomon, Dreamer (Girls Frontline), Eriko Karishima, Celestia Ludenberg, Mercedes von Martritz, Clara (Pathologic), Lapis Lazuli, Tinkerbell
Jane ๐๐ || AKA: Jane Crocker, Wendy Darling, Fuuka Yamagishi, Betsy Braddock, Springfield (Girls Frontline)
Kurt ๐ฟ๐ญ || AKA: Kurt Wagner, Ignatz Victor, Jataro Kemuri