“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
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
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.
Get a grip, its just a story. Droids are as much slaves as my lawnmower.
A more likely answer is that the self-appointed censors missed the widespread slavery in “Star Wars” because they tend to think that slavery was a uniquely American institution. It wasn’t. Slavery was ubiquitous and constant throughout human history until the 19th century (and it survives in some corners of the world today). What was unique about American slavery was American hypocrisy. A country founded on human equality and inalienable rights should have been the last place where humans could be held as property.
What about the Clone Army?
What happens if a clone “soldier” deserts from the army or refuses to fight unless he gets more paid more?
The Bounty Hunter who supplied the DNA for the Clone Army is not a slave.
He owns his own spacecraft and can come and go to any place in that galaxy any time he pleases.
Once again - why aren’t his clones slaves?
Droids are very complex tools that behave exactly as they are programmed to.
The real slavery in Star Wars was in the old Republic. The Empire abolished it.
How do these folks come up with this crap?
No one who attends Yale achieves a mastery of any skill these days except mental masturbation.
Those looking for slavery and slave traders in the Star Wars universe will find them (young Darth Vader, his mama, Princess Leia...)
How much is fair wage to pay your car or automated coffee maker every week?
How much is fair wage to pay the robots that replaced humans on assembly lines and do they get retirement packages or are they simply sold off as scrap metal when their work is done?
The three year old child's understanding of his parents is different than the teenager's - not so much because the parents have changed but because the child has grown up. This type of insight is Jonah Goldberg at his best...
Sadly(?) part of the attraction of the movie is the slavery involved.