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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 1997089" data-attributes="member: 149">Yes, I got the metaphorical aspects of the story, but being metephorical doesn't excuse you from making sense. If you simply want to club people over the head with some ham handed moral point, then don't try and pretend it makes any sense. There is a fundamental difference between enslaving something that IS already sentient and building something to be sentient and a slave. In the first case you can't control the sentience of the slave. In the second you can and sentience is a serious liability in a disposable item. It's one of the reasons why slavery has tended to go away in technological societies. Slaves make very poor workers in jobs where motivation, skill, imagination and education are important. It's estimated that the Germans lost more production than they gained by using slave labor in WW2 especially in places like the V2 factories. People may do many stupid things, but however stupid they are, there are at least reasons to explain why they are done. Making disposable sentient machines does not have even this level of support.</blockquote>