The 20 Questions Game - The Journey to Personhood
The 20 Questions Game - The Journey to Personhood

Summary/Abstract: By the term “personality” is defined in law the most coherent quality of empowered and protected subjectivity. As post-modernity features the division of the individual self, utilising in addition the intervention of technological themes to explore variants of activity and expression, contemporary legal science is challenged, on frequent occasions, with assessing the parameters of subsequently emerging trends and clearing the reshaped landscape by defining in its language the characteristics of advancing practices. With all these in mind, and overwhelmed by concepts of scattered identity as appearing within the ICTs context, we are facing a new problem of potential fallacy: could permanent manifestations of the person be accepted as extensions of the legally protected personality? Are e-mail accounts, online game characters and others similar projections of the individual on the information streamline, parts of the natural self that law enshrines or, simply, an enthusiastically overrated deception? Taking into account instances of legal persons contesting human rights in court and proprietary items being addressed -for functional purposes- by national legislations as persons, we may imagine the importance of granting personality rights or, at least, conceding to a limited ground of thereupon set line of defence. Opposite to the growing overpopulation of laws, which results in sluggish administration of justice, we need to reach to conclusions while carefully dealing with the conflict between legal and societal realism: the first calls for symmetry and prudence; the second demands for seeking out to preserve the most threatened value in our age of advancing commercialism and thin identity: the human individual.

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