henstomper:

henstomper:

henstomper:

why is every piece of media about the personhood of robots obsessed with the idea that for a robot to be a Real Person it needs to think and act exactly the same as a human

imo: “robots deserve to be treated with respect and dignity because they are people and thus inherently deserving of being treated as such regardless of who they are, their differences to humans do not change that regardless of how uncomfortable it makes humans, and in fact are what makes robots who they are and should not be shamed or hidden” is a way better message than “we need to respect robots only because they can be exactly like us”

the idea that someone different than you is worthy of being respected if they’re secretly just like you and have the exact same experiences as you feels super ignorant of what the actual reality of marginalized groups is