Right and before you know it they will be telling you
"F*** you @$$h0le"
Posted on 12/13/2007 7:02:28 AM PST by Dan Evans
Do robots deserve rights? The question is less ridiculous than it sounds. As scientists develop ever more sophisticated robots, we are faced with an ethical dilemma: When does artificial intelligence demand humane treatment?
In the last month, Japanese scientists have unveiled robots capable of serving food and even playing the violin and trumpet. These aren't self-aware robots – many scientists deride the notion of ever creating a robot capable of self-awareness – but self-awareness isn't the sole qualifier for rights. Certain severely brain-damaged human beings and newborns lack general self-awareness, but there is little doubt that they have rights, no matter what "ethicist" Peter Singer says.
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At the most basic level, there is only one element separating human beings from robots: the soul. ...
When the atheist speaks of human rights, therefore, he cannot speak of rights unique to human beings – he must speak of rights that extend to animals or even robots.
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Human beings have responsibilities because they have Godly souls. Robots do not have souls – they can never transcend their programming. Animals do not have souls – they cannot transcend their programming. The sanctity of human life is based on its unique status. Without the soul, the human being is a complex machine, no more sanctified than a tree or a squirrel or a robot.
... The sanctity of human life is based on its unique status. Without the soul, the human being is a complex machine, no more sanctified than a tree or a squirrel or a robot. There can be no high ideals in a soulless world.
Why worry about murder when every human being is as banal as a pocket calculator? Why worry about human rights when humans don't deserve special rights?
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Farm animals don't have a "right to life" but if we find a young boy torturing a chicken, he is disciplined for it -- not for the sake of the chicken, but for our own good. We simply cannot tolerate people in society who take pleasure in the misery of other living things. Otherwise the boy might direct his murderous tastes to his own kind.
My computer can play CDs, and my microwave prepares food. Does that mean they have rights?
What an ass.
Only if those rights extend to my toaster and iPod.
One electronic is equal to any other.
Hillary’s personal electronics demand rights.
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Q. When does artificial intelligence demand humane treatment?
A. Never.
Even posing this question opens the curtain on the irrational projection of human identities onto creatures and things which are not human.
Scientists are unwilling to define WHEN life begins so as to further justify the selfish act of infanticide that is abortion.
Some also have a god complex and want to believe that they have created LIFE so to treat their creation with RESPECT, they want to have Scientist given RIGHTS for robots.
Only now waiting for them to force the robots to love them “or else”.
I’d think they’d claim sanctuary status under several human rights treaties.
You must buy and endure the CDs that your CD player WANTS to play.
PS Your tv is a fan of the View.
Why don’t we wait until a robot asks us, unprompted, about it?
Thank you alotto Mr. Roboto.
Well, S.A.R.A.H. is addicted to Jerry Springer. /obscure
Probably.
Machine rights.
Interesting.
A robot is just a collection of parts and a program. No program I ever wrote had or deserved rights of any kind. If we’re going to extend rights to a collection of parts, we might as well extend them to a single part. Or a frying pan.
Come on, come on - certainly there are some machines that deserve humane treatment. My girlfriend calls me The Love Machine, yet she overworks me and constantly overtaxes and abuses my mechanism; doesn’t that rate some sort of sanction?
Be kind to your fridge and it’ll be kind to you!
Right and before you know it they will be telling you
"F*** you @$$h0le"
PETER — People for the ethichal treatement of every robot.’
It also describes in vulgar slang the type of people that would join such a group if it existed.
My mouse just squeaked, “’Ere, ‘oo are yoo?”
/ end vague Tolkien reference.
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