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DetlefK

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5. Who said bad behaviour stays behind closed doors?
Wed Sep 16, 2015, 09:40 AM
Sep 2015

Example:
Someone engages at home in racist and sexist hate-speech because that's his opinion, dammit. At home. Nobody hears it, nobody gets harmed by it.
What are the odds that this person is all of a sudden a tolerant person when in public?




The problem is that the psychological shift won't stay at home. Your personality affects others.

Using a sex-slave means a dehumanization of others. And the sex-robot would effectively be a sex-slave in the mind of the owner because it 1. is obedient and has to be commanded, 2. is antrophomorphic and gets depicted as a human in the mind of the owner.

My fear is that humans will be unable to tell that thing they use for sex (which would be life-like in all fleshy criterias) apart from a human.

My fear is that humans will apply the dehumanizing behaviour they have learned and that they have been taught from a young age to real people.

Hell, what do you think kept slavery going? A tradition of systematic dehumanization deeply ingrained into society and taught to every child from early age as the way things are supposed to be!

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