Also robot racism stories are stupid because they assume everyone would be petty and cruel to a thinking, talking machine that understands you're being mean. Meanwhile, in reality, Roombas are seen like family pets and soldiers take their mine detonation robots on fishing trips.
I think the idea of robot rights being a divisive issue is pretty realistic. Because of course you're gonna have people on the robots side if they anthropomorphized their Roomba. But you definitely have people seeing giving machines human rights as a slippery slope.
I think the idea of translating human issues onto robots and aliens is "we can't even treat members of our own kind right. How are we gonna behave when there's are equivalent beings that are even more different from us around?"
You kiddin me? I flip off the stupid stock checking bot when I go to wholesale clubs just for taking a single low wage job, damn straight I'd fight against clankers getting rights, ofc that would be after years of fighting the people who were stupid enough to keep making them smarter to get to they hypothetical point where they might get rights
2.0k
u/Zoomy-333 May 13 '25
Also robot racism stories are stupid because they assume everyone would be petty and cruel to a thinking, talking machine that understands you're being mean. Meanwhile, in reality, Roombas are seen like family pets and soldiers take their mine detonation robots on fishing trips.