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WCDT 23-27 November 2015 (Strips 3096-3100)
Omega Entity:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 25 Nov 2015, 20:22 ---Yet the fight club exists.
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But no one is forced to participate. Life circumstances might make it feel like the only option they might have, but it's not compulsory by any means.
Tova:
--- Quote from: Omega Entity on 25 Nov 2015, 20:37 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 25 Nov 2015, 20:22 ---Yet the fight club exists.
--- End quote ---
But no one is forced to participate. Life circumstances might make it feel like the only option they might have, but it's not compulsory by any means.
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You're playing games with semantics. I daresay that the original context was meant to imply "forced by circumstance." Claiming that no AIs are forced into a life not of their choosing holds very little meaning if you are going to restricted "forced" to mean direct legal or physical compulsion.
Omega Entity:
But we're not talking about, say, the involuntary landing of a plane due to necessity. Much like how prostitution or working a fast food job isn't preferred by most, there's still an element of choice involved, difficulty in other options aside.
Is it cold in here?:
There's no reason for Jeph to go there but given the society he's portrayed there are probably things going on as bad as AIs doing sex work when they'd rather do something else.
DashaBlade:
If the fight club is exploitative, and robots are victims of circumstance that causes them to make the choice to fight, even against their own better interests, then Momo is way off base for being upset at the robots who fight. She'd be the AI equivalent of a person who blames a prostitute for prostitution, while knowing that the prostitute in question was manipulated into selling sex. Or a person who blames a common soldier for a war, when enlisted people aren't the ones making the policy and the soldier only enlisted because the economy is in the toilet and he couldn't find a job in the private sector.
And if that's the case, I think my respect for Momo would go way, way down. You don't blame the pawn for the chess player's strategies, even if the pawn willingly joins the game.
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