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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

The potential for misuse of this technology remains. Nip gave several reasons in post (#3).

I’ll give another: If, in the hypothetical future, American human soldiers are told to fire upon conservatives, they may balk at firing against their own people.

Robot soldiers, having neither emotions nor a conscience, would have no scruples.


5 posted on 04/19/2011 7:09:59 AM PDT by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
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To: Immerito
Still need a person to pull the trigger, and that person is a captain in the control booth in Indian Springs, and very likely a conservative that values honor, integrity and swears allegiance to the constitution of the United States, not a president.
9 posted on 04/19/2011 8:55:57 AM PDT by Hulka
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