Lives schmives, plenty more where that came from. Robots though, they’re steel, they’re copper, polonium and whatchamacallit. My grandpa used to say you can always make a new baby but if your robot dies you have one foot in the poorhouse.
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They added more and more human emotions to the hypothetical robots, and people became more sympathetic of them. This is a problem? It would be a bad thing if a robot with fully human emotions elicits sympathy? Westworld anyone? Is it simply having human DNA and physiology that makes a being special? James Cameron’s Avatar anyone?
I’m assuming you mean the “real” R2-D2, but heck, I’d choose the lifeless movie prop over that thing. It has some cultural value, at least.
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I’d go with the idea that if something has a function, rather than just being decorative, we humans tend to develop attachments to them. If there is the slightest chance we can anthropomorphise something then we will, every time.
Humans are weird.
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And projection-y. But who can blame us when we build robots with such joie de vivre?
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This is silly.
Everybody knows it takes two to tango!
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Artoo, no Tango.
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Or, if you prefer Line Dancing…
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Heartless Scandinavians just proved I am easily manipulated, dammit.
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