Rights for Robots: why sex machines should have rights too

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www.indy100.com/article/samantha-sex-robot-molested-austria-tech-rights-consent-ethical-questions-university-of-westminster-8291806

So many things in this article are making me go 'errrrr waaaaatttt?'

What the fuck is this world coming too...

But there are also warnings that the rise of sex robots is a symptom of the “pornification” of sexual culture and the increasing “dehumanisation of women

Well yeah

Jesus. No-one gives that much a fuck about human prostitutes, it's all yay choosy choice.
How depressing.

Wow, that article. It's like the plot of Ex Machina regurgitated by a toddler drunk on rum truffles.

So what should be done? The campaign to “ban” sex robots, as the computer scientist Kate Devlin has argued, is only likely to lead to a lack of discussion. Instead, she hypothesises that many ways of sexual and social inclusivity could be explored as a result of human-robot relationships.

Given that a true AI is yet to be developed, what relationships? Does this person also think they have a relationship with their toaster?

What a depressing article.
I note that the article underneath is warning of people being able to hack them and remotely and turn them into murderers!

I don't know Kittens I certainly feel like me and my toaster have a particularly antagonistic relationship...

Every kettle I own breaks after a year or so. Clearly this is part of an evil plot by the master AI to spread misery and despair across the land as grumpy people get out of bed, go to make themselves coffee, and...nope, no coffee for you.

This was the best line of the article.

To be sure, there are certain elements of relationships between humans and sex workers that we may not wish to repeat.

You think?

Wow, that article. It's like the plot of Ex Machina regurgitated by a toddler drunk on rum truffles.

Love that. I'm now deeply sad that there won't be many opportunities for me to knick that line.

It's a spoof. It's got to be a spoof. Please tell me it's a spoof.

It's not a spoof, is it?

Be nice to the golem, lest one day you are mean to your wife. Good God !

www.academia.edu/36120193/Fucking_Law_A_New_Methodological_Movement_

By the same author and referenced in the article. I have read the opening paragraph and have no idea what it is about.

Not sure the author does either, honestly, Lass.

Oh FFS.

There may be the vestige of a point buried in that article.

For me there seems to be 2 questions to be addressed in relation to sex robots?

1. Are they a good thing because the men who currently use prostitutes will stop using real women?

1. Are they a bad thing because , not being human, they cannot suffer physical or emotional pain and will this trigger or exacerbate sociopathic behaviour in their users which is carried in to real- life?