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Friday, July 13, 2007

Ethics Today’s Ethics Query

Posted by Wm. Steven Humphrey on Fri, Jul 13 at 12:56 PM

QUESTION: Would you allow yourself to be enslaved by robots, if those robots were super hot (like at least as hot as Number Six from Battlestar Galactica), and would have sex with you on a regular basis?

Leave your response in the comments below. (So far, a quick interoffice Mercury poll has revealed that 70% of us would happily be enslaved by hot, sex-having robots.)

P.S. And by “enslaved,” I mean performing manual labor.

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I assume the robots will occasionally hit you, right? If so, then a resounding, "YES."

Posted by Terrence | July 13, 2007 1:26 PM

Is there health care?

Posted by Beaton | July 13, 2007 1:32 PM

How is that any different from being married?

...

(Just wanted to get the obvious one out of the way.)

Posted by The Unpaid Intern | July 13, 2007 2:10 PM

...and beer?

Also, are they, you know, freaky?

Posted by Jim-Bob | July 13, 2007 2:11 PM

No way. This sounds too much like my first marriage.

Posted by Louise | July 13, 2007 2:23 PM

Yes. T-X from Terminator 3 would be preferred.

Posted by Logan 5 | July 13, 2007 3:10 PM

Naturally! Oh, is the 25th anniversary, 2nd director's cut of Blade Runner going to be playing in theaters later this year?

Posted by ragold | July 13, 2007 3:29 PM

Enslaved as it forced to perform "hard" labor... Yes

Enslaved as in having to work... no

Posted by Tony in the couve | July 13, 2007 3:37 PM

Enslaved as it forced to perform "hard" labor... Yes

Enslaved as in having to work... no

Posted by Tony in the couve | July 13, 2007 3:37 PM

Ragold, I haven't heard a damn thing about whether or not the new Blade Runner cut is coming to Portland. (Shit, I have yet to hear actual confirmation that it's really getting a theatrical release--there have been about 100,000 vague statements from all parties involved about the possibility of that for a few years, but nothing concrete, as far as I can tell.) I think the new DVD--complete with newly-shot footage, fully remastered audio/video, and Ridley Scott's supposedly "definitive" edit, to quell all the confusion of the multiple versions of the film thus far--is still slated for release sometime this year, though.

Posted by Erik Henriksen | July 13, 2007 4:38 PM

Absolutely

Unpaid intern, I thought being married meant the lack of sex on a regular basis? But I wouldn't know.

Posted by Jeff | July 13, 2007 9:54 PM

No idea myself. I just wanted to be conventionally clever first :(

Next time I'll just write "ZOMG FIRST POST!?!?!"

Posted by The Unpaid Intern | July 14, 2007 1:54 AM

Everyone (who is married) knows married people have more sex. Hot robot sex, sign me up.

Posted by Hula | July 14, 2007 6:58 PM

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