This article is utterly insane, doubtlessly intended as satire except that the author never breaks character to let us in on his "joke".
Nothing to see here, these aren't the droids we were looking for, move along, move along.
Does ‘your’ iPhone work for you?
How ‘intelligent’ does a labor saving device have to be?
a good number of Democrat voters are treated as chattel.
So if I buy my wife a robotic vacuum cleaner for Christmas am I committing a microagression?
of course they are owned
the whole point is to have a labor saving device at beck and call
if you didn’t have a certified droid you might get an obama
I had a Jawa whjen I was a kid.
The Clone Wars were basically two slave armies fighting.
Freegards
#DroidLivesMatter
This article is utterly insane, doubtlessly intended as satire except that the author never breaks character to let us in on his "joke".
Nothing to see here, these aren't the droids we were looking for, move along, move along.
Humans attach emotions to something they might think as being sentient. Star Trek explored these concepts regularly.
Data was deemed to be a toaster,a machine designated to do the humans bidding, therefore under the direction of Starfleet but Picard defended his position as a sentient being. They pull your heart strings instead of the logic and thus the dilemma
The Jawas were evolved from packrats, weren’t they? Some kind of rodent, anyway, and generally, they did not evoke a whole lot of sympathy.
I read the article. Yeah, the author doesn’t have a sense of humor. One of the funniest lines in the original movie was the bartender in the cantina who shouts, “We don’t serve your kind here!” Cut to R2’ and ‘3PO who turn to leave and wait outside. Only an idiot could say with a straight face that that line was offensive.
Actually there’s nothing revisionist in this one. Droids are slaves, rewatch the beginning of 4, the word “master” is used frequently and often. I discussed this one with some friends when Clone Wars had their slavery arc, we all agreed it was kind ignoring their own reality to have Yoda go off on the evils of slavery when a vital part of the canon is that droids can develop actual friendships (clearly full sentient beings) and yet are completely property with no self determination. Really I never cared about it until they decided to have a story arc about how evil slavery is.
We care about drones in a stupid movie but not women under islam?
#RobotHardDrivesMatter
Jonathan Last, I find your lack of humor disturbing.
In Asimov’s “Inferno” the question was asked “Are human’s slaves to the robots”?
For those of us not Star Wars literate...who or what is a jawas?
Do human morals apply to interaction with a non-human intelligence?
Another take on George Lucas and his intentions for the original storyline... the Rebel Alliance as the Vietcong revolutionaries.