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Darn it, hit send too early, I forgot one...
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Todd Lehman writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mark Sandlin writes:
> > > I'm right there with you, Tom. A good friend of mine is a vegetarian • because
> > > of the whole cruelty-to-animals thing. Every once in a while I ask him why
> > > he wears leather. He never has come up with any kind of sensible response.
> >
> > What timing -- just stumbled onto this from a robotics site:
> >
> > http://www.ananova.com/news/story/technology_world-us-amazing- • science_914122.html
> >
> > It's an article entitled "Scientists plan meat-eating robot."
>
> Thanks.
>
> So some hundreds or thousands of robot generations down the road, when these
> meat eating lawn mowers have evolved enough to have conversations about
> morality, they are going to argue something as follows:
>
> Robbie: "it's OK to eat meat. we were built to run better on meat! It's what
> our makers intended."
> Number 5: "ya, but meat is alive, and we can get by on grass. True, it makes
> us sluggish and we get hit when we cross the street on the way to the next
> lawn, but that's a small price to pay"
> Artoo: "well, if we HADN'T eaten meat for generations, we never would have had
> the free time to evolve any sentience so we could argue about it, we'd be so
> busy digesting grass"
> Bigear: "I'm not sure but what the grass doesn't have feelings too. Sometimes
> I hear it squeal just before I eat it"
> Bolo: "Na, that's just your jaw bearings about to give out. But you could
> argue that the chasing of meat in order to catch it was part of why our wits
> got sharper... all those strategies for catching the lawn voles ended up
> making us smarter. Plus I like my plasma gun, it's fun to blow stuff up."
Peter: "all this arguing confuses me. Me, I'm just the lawnmower."
++Lar
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