That argues for giving expensive robots of the future something like pain or something like fear, if they are going to be doing dangerous jobs, and if their builders prefer they don’t throw their “lives” down the toilet at nine zillion dollars a pop. Which is good; I wouldn’t want to battle terminator-like Schwarzenegger robots that don’t experience either fear or pain! They’d still be scary as hell with fear and pain programmed in, but it’d be nice knowing they had that achilles heel holding them back a little.
I’m waiting for a gen splice that makes women less bitchy. Might have to wait a long time.