Is it ethical to have sex with a robot?

M. Grégoire

@evan Strong no.

#Futurama tells us why sex with robots is unethical from a consequentialist perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uE96qUlJ_4

Steve

@evan Asking for a friend?

Evan Prodromou

@steevc asking for another robot.

Karl Heinz Häsliprinz

@evan Define robot or are we talking about vibrators and fleshlights?

Evan Prodromou

Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️

Only if the robot is programmed to consent enthusiastically.

Evan Prodromou

@Blort if it's *programmed* to consent enthusiastically, is that real consent?

Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️

And here we rapidly devolve into debates about if it's possible for free will to exist, or if the universe is entirely mechanistic.

Christine Lemmer-Webber

@Blort @evan philosophy and free will that's too advanced for me

*takes her doll pills*

Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️

Ay. You and me both, sister.

willow 柳 :demigirl:

@evan @Blort Well I think it's first important to discuss if it is even needed to get consent since it might not be considered a living being.

Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦

Mu.

Is it ethical to use a vibrator or dildo? That’s the same, isn’t it?

Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️

Cue philosophy's next eternal debate topic: What is life?

On that note:
Are good and evil are categorical or consequential?

Can we know Truth?

If all the parts of something (say... a ship?) are replaced, does that thing continue to exist?

Is Purina chunky cat food the ideal protein source?

M. Grégoire

Evan Prodromou

@mcepl is it?

Evan Prodromou

@willow @Blort almost definitely not a living being, unless it's a special bio-robot, but possibly a conscious being.

infinite love ⴳ

@cwebber @Blort @evan before asking “is it ethical to have sex with robots”, we must first ask: is it ethical to have sex