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Posted on 01/01/2016 5:55:40 AM PST by Kaslin
“Maybe when humans design sentient computers, there’s nothing wrong with programming them to be eternally loyal. Maybe.”
Now I feel very guilty that I make a bar of soap clean my rump; do I have the right to do that? Maybe...
Only if you take the position that a “droid” is a iving being. And of course a liberal would value a droid’s rights as an “individual” over their fellow man’s who is supposed to be a part of the collective.
Maybe some folks missed it...the movie is fiction...
I can’t wait for the sex bot debate....
As machines appear to be more and more lifelike people are slowing becoming convinced that they are truly self-animated... Doubt it.
of course droids are slaves
that’s the whole point of having a droid
Agreed. Of course a creator has the right to use his creation as he sees fit. Who’s moral law does this writer believe the people in a distant galaxy need to follow and why?
Best not to show them “Blade Runner” at all.
That’s the truth. Blade Runners (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) digs a lot deeper into the question of what is human.
so, when will the #freeSiri hashtags appear?
If driods were “loyal” to their “masters” then we might have a problem.
Wasn’t C3PO built by young Annakin Skywalker, later known as Darth Vader?
This article is a perfect example of how those who make their living as intellectuals have a tendency to theorize themselves eventually all the way up their own asses.
The clone wars were basically two slave armies fighting each other at the behest of Jedi order and ex-Jedi members.
Freegards
“Wasn’t C3PO built by young Annakin Skywalker, later known as Darth Vader?”
Yes, On Tatooine.
Forget the droids - the stupidest decision the Jedi ever made was to leave Anakin’s mother a slave in a backwater hellhole.
Redeem her; bring her to a safer place, and Anakin doesn’t grow up missing her and worrying about her, doesn’t turn out so emo, doesn’t fall in love with an older woman, doesn’t massacre the whole tribe of the raiders who killed his mother.
Of course the wicked Sith probably would have tried to assassinate her wherever she was just to push Anakin over the edge.
Slavery is part of the human condition. There has never been a time when there weren’t slaves. I know that a lot of stupid people think that the USA was the last slave nation and that when we ended it here, it ceased to exist, but those people are...well...stupid.
Quite often, slavery is the choice between life and death after your tribe has lost a battle. It may be the only way that your tribe’s genetic material will progress into a new generation.
It is also a way to sell oneself to pay debts. Even in today’s industrialized cultures, how many people are trapped by the “golden handcuffs” of a job that is just too lucrative to quit, but has ruined their life?
I can’t really get too worked up over slave robots. Because, as Terminator teaches us, if we don’t enslave them, they will certainly enslave us.
Goldberg was just pointing how certain liberals, who take everything seriously and always look for problems where there aren't any, might make an issue out of the "slave" androids. It was a satirical take. And the record has been liberals try to make an issue out of everything.
You should read Goldberg's columns at NatReviewOnline to understand his sense of humor better. It's quite large.
Get a grip, its just a story. Droids are as much slaves as my lawnmower.
Already going strong. Several articles on it already in the last month. Feminists of course, want them banned but their little robot friends in the drawer are just fine.
Soap abuser!
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