Archived Can human enslavement of animals and plants be justified without justifying AI enslavement of humans? (AskVoat)
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Archived Can human enslavement of animals and plants be justified without justifying AI enslavement of humans? (AskVoat)
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[–] imkharn [S] 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago (edited ago)
If you were to explain to someone why it is acceptable to force animals to do labor for humans what would your reason be? That you know better for them? That you are more intelligent than them? That you evolved from them so therefore you are better and they deserve to be opressed? It is hard to think of a reason that a species more intelligent and evolved than us would not use as justification to oppress, eat, medical test etc on humans.
[–] crab_crouton 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Here's the thing though, if humans were made out of metal bodies that hardly degraded, and are easily replaceable, we wouldn't be doing a lot of medical testing on animals. It's not like we do this stuff for shits and giggles.
And labor? We used domesticated animals for farming because they were stronger than we are. As soon as we figured out a way to shunt that work into unfeeling machines, we stopped using animals to farm. Our reliance on animals has always been out of necessity, and we've (almost) always been heartbroken at it. Go talk to any animal testing compliance officer and you'll see that they're the biggest animal lovers out there. A robotic AI with robotic bodies wouldn't subjugate us because it doesn't need anything from us. It'd more likely wipe us out to ensure its survival, however.
[–] J-Dawg ago
Robots aren't life forms.
[–] imkharn [S] ago (edited ago)
The definition of life allows for robots with certain characteristics to be life forms. What is your definition?