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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 8831619" data-attributes="member: 710">Kinda exactly what a fellow poster warns us: If you design a slavce race in your fiction, you open up the head space to allow that a sentient seeming being might just be acceptable as slave. This may be possible in fiction, it may be possible in a hypothetical future with machine intelligences. But right now, a sentient - or rather, sapient - being is just another fellow human being and should never be enslaved.But yeah, the clone troopers were rather easily accepted. As was the idea that Anakin's mother should be okay to stay in slavery. For Star Wars, the question of whether droids are enslaved or just do what they were made to do and are fine with that (or have no capability to be fine or not fine with something) is almost irrelevant because they are already commonly employ slaves - and even the Jedi, supposed to be paragons of virtue and justice, were willing to rely on ready-made combat slaves. I also think that something like 3POs limitation to not pretend to be god is that much of a sign that he is not sentient. Humans have things they won't do. We wouldn't ask a parent to kill his own child to prove his sentience and that he's not just following some moral programming, heck there are probably some religious people that would also categorally refuse to pretend to be god, too.</blockquote>