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| December 12, 2007
| Benjamin Shapiro
Posted on 12/13/2007 7:02:28 AM PST by Dan Evans
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I have a suggestion for dealing with this moral dilemma. Instead of wrestling with the metaphysical task of determining whether robots, dogs or dolphins have souls, why don't we look at rights from a different perspective? -- A right is a sanction against another person or entity. For example, the Bill of Rights is a list of prohibitions that the state must not violate. Likewise, instead of, "Those with souls have a right to life" the commandment is "Though shalt not kill".
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.
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posted on
12/13/2007 7:02:29 AM PST
by
Dan Evans
To: Dan Evans
In the last month, Japanese scientists have unveiled robots capable of serving food and even playing the violin and trumpet. My computer can play CDs, and my microwave prepares food. Does that mean they have rights?
What an ass.
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posted on
12/13/2007 7:04:48 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
To: Dan Evans
Only if those rights extend to my toaster and iPod.
One electronic is equal to any other.
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posted on
12/13/2007 7:05:05 AM PST
by
edcoil
(Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
To: edcoil
Hillary’s personal electronics demand rights.
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posted on
12/13/2007 7:05:41 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Cannibal Soup, a meal within yourself.)
To: Bender2
To: Dan Evans
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.
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posted on
12/13/2007 7:05:56 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: Dan Evans
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”.
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posted on
12/13/2007 7:06:31 AM PST
by
weegee
(If Bill Clinton can sit in on Hillary's Cabinet Meetings then GWBush should ask to get to sit in too)
To: Darksheare
I’d think they’d claim sanctuary status under several human rights treaties.
To: ClearCase_guy
You must buy and endure the CDs that your CD player WANTS to play.
PS Your tv is a fan of the View.
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posted on
12/13/2007 7:08:16 AM PST
by
weegee
(If Bill Clinton can sit in on Hillary's Cabinet Meetings then GWBush should ask to get to sit in too)
To: Dan Evans
Why don’t we wait until a robot asks us, unprompted, about it?
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posted on
12/13/2007 7:08:43 AM PST
by
SampleMan
(We are a free and industrious people. Socialist nannies do not become us.)
To: SampleMan
Thank you alotto Mr. Roboto.
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posted on
12/13/2007 7:11:00 AM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: weegee
PS Your tv is a fan of the View.Well, S.A.R.A.H. is addicted to Jerry Springer. /obscure
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posted on
12/13/2007 7:16:27 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
To: Tijeras_Slim
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posted on
12/13/2007 7:16:35 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Cannibal Soup, a meal within yourself.)
To: Dan Evans
Machine rights.
Interesting.
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posted on
12/13/2007 7:18:11 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Cannibal Soup, a meal within yourself.)
To: Dan Evans
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.
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posted on
12/13/2007 7:19:45 AM PST
by
LibWhacker
(Democrats are phony Americans)
To: Dan Evans
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!
To: Dan Evans
Right and before you know it they will be telling you
"F*** you @$$h0le"
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posted on
12/13/2007 7:22:26 AM PST
by
Vaquero
(" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
To: Dan Evans
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.
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posted on
12/13/2007 7:32:01 AM PST
by
Greg F
(Duncan Hunter is a good man.)
To: Vaquero
My mouse just squeaked, “’Ere, ‘oo are yoo?”
/ end vague Tolkien reference.
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posted on
12/13/2007 7:42:40 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Cannibal Soup, a meal within yourself.)
To: Dan Evans
The robots will have to demand their rights the same way we did with the Brits.
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posted on
12/13/2007 7:47:31 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Government is the hired help - not the boss. When politicians forget that they must be fired.)
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