Because it's not accounting, it's systematic gutting of bodies that prevent them or their friends doing things.
"Auditing" an entity doesn't usually involve shutting down said entity indefinitely pending the audit which never comes, while the "auditor" makes copies of every bit of data you have for later abuse.
I do not mean that as an insult to our follicularly challenged brothers and sisters. I merely wish to have him reminded we know he paid for that hair, purely because his fragile little ego cracks every time he sees that old picture of himself in the public domain.
Perhaps, but very indicative of the direction his actions are taking, and it works well to whip up bottom-dweller level nationalism.
It might be merely the thin end of the wedge, but it should be resisted along with every other action baby hands dreams up while being sprayed down with lead paint every morning.
The diversity we have as a species is -and always has been- our greatest strength. It means a subset of us can usually do at least "ok" under any given situation.
The same thing is what made some poxy little island able to rule a vast swathe of the planet. The UK took the best of everything it encountered, and added it to it's own, like the Borg. Of course, like everywhere else that's run by plutocrats, in an effort to keep us all divided anything "foreign" is currently bad, and to be shunned.
Call it what you want, those with no morals have no boundaries. This is what laws are supposed to prevent, but y'know, the sociopaths have normalised greed and gluttony, and made it the "dream" of a nation.
That would be the consciousness that lives in the meat puppet, the experiences of life shaping it the whole time.
Not a soul, per se, just an accident of physics. Something as yet unquantifiable, but definitely something. Quite possibly something involving quantum physics, which would explain the difficulty in determining what makes us, us.
We've discovered that a number of life forms appear to use quantum effects in some way, the ones I remember were navigation oriented (ba dum tish). Having existing examples of biology making use of the quantum world makes the idea much less of a stretch.
Because it's not accounting, it's systematic gutting of bodies that prevent them or their friends doing things.
"Auditing" an entity doesn't usually involve shutting down said entity indefinitely pending the audit which never comes, while the "auditor" makes copies of every bit of data you have for later abuse.