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WCDT: 2151-55 (26-30 Mar 2012) QC IN SPAAAAAACE... Week TEN!?!
Mr_Rose:
I thought that riddle was more about highlighting prejudicial assumptions than professional ethics?
Near Lurker:
Not the point.
specter177:
--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 01 Apr 2012, 15:00 ---*snip*
I don't see what it matters whether or not his capacity as her therapist was official, or whether he's technically older than she is if he served as her caretaker; the former just means it's not illegal, not that it's not wrong, and the latter is still creepy, since AIs don't go through a childhood. It doesn't matter whether now he's more or less mature than she is, since there was still a time when she was a child and he was "the adult," and in a way, he still is, and that's a fucked-up power dynamic.
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Why wouldn't AIs go through a childhood? They may be born with the knowledge of mankind, but they still have to learn how to interact in that world. Otherwise, what would be the point of calling them sentient if they don't grow emotionally? Even incredibly smart human children are still children.
StevenC:
--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 01 Apr 2012, 15:00 ---
When this comes up, doctors are allowed and expected to turn the case over if at all reasonable, as when a relative comes. Remember the old riddle? "I can't operate on this boy; he's my son."
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That's more a case of being too nervous to do surgery because it's your kid.
--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 01 Apr 2012, 15:00 ---since there was still a time when she was a child and he was "the adult," and in a way, he still is, and that's a fucked-up power dynamic.
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But she's not a child anymore, neither is she his patient. You'd think an adult is allowed to make decisions on their own.
Besides there was a time when my girlfriend was "A child" and I was "the adult" in a legal sense. That was before I even knew her. And if I was in the USA she'd still be considered a child.
Saying it's creepy because at one point in their life, long long before any romantic advances were made, she was a minor, is stupid.
Hugh Hefner is old. He was already old before any of the girls he's with were even born. But they're adults and if they want to hang around with the guy it's not your place to call the guy creepy.
Near Lurker:
--- Quote from: specter177 on 01 Apr 2012, 15:23 ---Why wouldn't AIs go through a childhood? They may be born with the knowledge of mankind, but they still have to learn how to interact in that world. Otherwise, what would be the point of calling them sentient if they don't grow emotionally? Even incredibly smart human children are still children.
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Why wouldn't they? I don't know. But Momo is only two years old, so either they don't go through childhood as we would understand it, or they go through a very short one.
--- Quote from: StevenC on 01 Apr 2012, 15:24 ---That's more a case of being too nervous to do surgery because it's your kid.
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No, it isn't.
--- Quote from: StevenC on 01 Apr 2012, 15:24 ---But she's not a child anymore, neither is she his patient. You'd think an adult is allowed to make decisions on their own.
Besides there was a time when my girlfriend was "A child" and I was "the adult" in a legal sense. That was before I even knew her. And if I was in the USA she'd still be considered a child.
Saying it's creepy because at one point in their life, long long before any romantic advances were made, she was a minor, is stupid.
Hugh Hefner is old. He was already old before any of the girls he's with were even born. But they're adults and if they want to hang around with the guy it's not your place to call the guy creepy.
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This is such a direct failure to comprehend everything I said that I can only see it as being consciously obtuse. You were never the adult. You were an adult. Didn't I just say that relative age or maturity wasn't the issue? But Station was directly involved in Hannelore's upbringing. Relationships like that don't just magically become null and void when some magic barrier of adulthood is reached. Would it not be creepy if Hugh Hefner had helped to raise one of his girls?! Really!
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