AnythingOutstanding said:
This was really designed to bring out the inner racist in humans.
People view robots as slaves or machines.(In fact, that is what robot means!) Not as actual beings. Kind of like how people viewed humans with black colored skin hundreds of years ago.
I call bullshit on the racist argument. A robot isn't a person. That's it. For this exercise I shall utilize the excellent Shylock monologue from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice -
"I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands,
organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same
food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases,
heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter
and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If
you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?
And if you wrong us, do we not revenge? If we are like you in the
rest, we will resemble you in that."
Now replace the word "jew" with the word "robot" and you'll see that every answer to Shylock's rhetorical questions goes from yes to no. A robot does not have eyes, hands, affections, passions, or is fed with the same food. Pretty much a no on all fronts there. Because it's a robot. A machine designed, by man, to do tasks people cannot or will not do. I find equating the racism with robo prejudice more than a little insulting. Robots aren't people. The end.