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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 7907423" data-attributes="member: 710">No, the freedom to choose does not mean he is a person. That is what you interpret into it, but at the point of the verdict, it really only means that he can choose not to be dismantled. Everything beyond that would require additional rulings, court decisisons, and laws. And it only applies to him, not anyone else.For that question however, it is completely irrelevant what the Federation law says. Because every nation can make laws saying that killing some minority is totally okay, and still others would consider killing that minority a genocide.What matters more is: Did the Federation kill anyone that was sentient? 1) And we don't know that really, because we don't know if the "synths" were truly sentient. The warning message in the second episode depicting the events of the Synth attack suggests they were "corrupted", which can be applied to sentients, but is more typically applied to computers. The behaviour of the Synths seemed less advanced than Data's behaviour, which could mean it's not truly sentient.2) We also don't really know if they killed any Synths. In the scene of the attack, the Synth destroys itself at the end (or commited suicide, depending on your opinion on the first aspect). If so, then the Federation didn't killa nyone, they killed themselves. The only thing the Federation said was that they won't make more of them and no one else in the Federation could do it. Would that count as genocide? Do you have the moral and ethical duty to create new copies of artificial life once youc reated the first one?</blockquote>

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