And to paraphrase him, I'd say "how do you psychologically torture your child? You think it isn't real, it's a game. You focus on the target". But why would you want to psychologically torture your child? It's a different and more loaded question than why you might want to kill a stranger.
You think that Daniel abused her before? Not physically but she seemed genuinely afraid of him. Maybe in the way he knew too well why she hated him smoking. There's also what Amanda said last week about Zoe loving the old house - the one that burned down around her. A near death experience at a formative age (and they never said what saved her - it sounded as though it wasn't her parents). Daniel's ambition took her away from all that, like he said it wasn't a suitable environment for his work. Zoe did come across as a poor little rich girl in the early episodes but her backstory is fleshing that out in interesting ways. Speaking of flshing I also think it's interesting that for the Avatar Zoe all these memories were just memories but Daniel is causing her to physically experience them. It's a fascinating relationship even though I don't find any of the Graystones personally likeable or relatable.
I'm afraid that I'm very sentimental with animals. But you eat them don't you? Please ignore this if you don't but many pet owners do, which requires being able to draw a mental line between some animals and others. I don't know, because it's something that humans find so easy to do, while Zoe the robot may be evolving away from who she used to think were her people, I don't think drawing that particular line is a sign of inhumanity.
When Daniel talked about putting a new sentient race in slavery, it was morally wrong from our point of view (ancient Greeks wouldn't have flinched), but it was a general talk about robots that didn't exist yet (like the Scoobies talking about exterminating vampires in season 4 and yet Willow didn't want to let Spike commit suicide because they knew him). I doubt he would sell the U-87 now, nor would he use it as a personal slave. The thing that struck me as creepy wasn't the idea of slavery per se but the idea that having such power over another sentient being would be the major selling point. Not that robots would be useful for what they could do but the fact of being able to make them do it. Daniel made the point right at the beginning of his pitch that the U-87 was like a person. Usually in slavery metaphors the idea is that the robots are depersonalised by their users but here the idea was to explictly sell them as 'people.' I think Daniel would be tempted to keep the U-87 *because* he knows its secret.
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But why would you want to psychologically torture your child? It's a different and more loaded question than why you might want to kill a stranger.
You think that Daniel abused her before?
Not physically but she seemed genuinely afraid of him. Maybe in the way he knew too well why she hated him smoking. There's also what Amanda said last week about Zoe loving the old house - the one that burned down around her. A near death experience at a formative age (and they never said what saved her - it sounded as though it wasn't her parents). Daniel's ambition took her away from all that, like he said it wasn't a suitable environment for his work. Zoe did come across as a poor little rich girl in the early episodes but her backstory is fleshing that out in interesting ways. Speaking of flshing I also think it's interesting that for the Avatar Zoe all these memories were just memories but Daniel is causing her to physically experience them. It's a fascinating relationship even though I don't find any of the Graystones personally likeable or relatable.
I'm afraid that I'm very sentimental with animals.
But you eat them don't you? Please ignore this if you don't but many pet owners do, which requires being able to draw a mental line between some animals and others. I don't know, because it's something that humans find so easy to do, while Zoe the robot may be evolving away from who she used to think were her people, I don't think drawing that particular line is a sign of inhumanity.
When Daniel talked about putting a new sentient race in slavery, it was morally wrong from our point of view (ancient Greeks wouldn't have flinched), but it was a general talk about robots that didn't exist yet (like the Scoobies talking about exterminating vampires in season 4 and yet Willow didn't want to let Spike commit suicide because they knew him). I doubt he would sell the U-87 now, nor would he use it as a personal slave.
The thing that struck me as creepy wasn't the idea of slavery per se but the idea that having such power over another sentient being would be the major selling point. Not that robots would be useful for what they could do but the fact of being able to make them do it. Daniel made the point right at the beginning of his pitch that the U-87 was like a person. Usually in slavery metaphors the idea is that the robots are depersonalised by their users but here the idea was to explictly sell them as 'people.' I think Daniel would be tempted to keep the U-87 *because* he knows its secret.