Sometimes opposition is also a kind of respect

Foster 2021-10-13 13:06:41

In fact, when I first watched it, I was very worried, because the male protagonist's attitude towards robots is that "other people have different hearts", and he is a black man, worried that the movie can't justify the ethical aspects of race, equality, and freedom.
But soon I found out that I was worrying ╮(╯_╰)╭, other people could not understand the male protagonist’s vigilance and disgust towards robots. They like robots to get close to robots because in their eyes, robots are objects and tools. , And it works very well. People let others or other things exist in their own private space without being suspicious, first because of trust and second because they know that this thing has no will.
The male protagonist cannot treat the robot as merely an object. He keeps a distance and vigilance from them. He doesn't believe them, just as there is a distance between humans and humans, you can't be as unsuspecting against strangers as you are against a new cup. Although he referred to robots as "that thing", he was using human code of conduct to measure the behavior of robots, thinking that they would also make mistakes, and they would also have "motivations" if they killed someone they would be "suspects" and be punished. He didn't even react. Even if a robot killed a human, it was just an "industrial accident" in the eyes of others, and there was no need to explore the motivation of the behavior. He used words like "cold-blooded" to describe humans to describe robots, and he was brooding about the rational judgments made by robots in the previous accident—just like treating real people.
Love and appreciation are not the same as equality and respect. Freedom inherently contradicts trust.

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  • Detective Del Spooner: [sneezes] ... Sorry, I'm allergic to bullshit.

  • Susan Calvin: Do you ever have a normal day?

    Detective Del Spooner: Yeah. Once. It was a Thursday.