Posted: 2/18/2008 1:12:36 PM EDT
| This may sound conspiratorial, but with the proliferation of robots in our military, has anyone considered the possibility of someone or something turning them on our servicemen and citizens? |
Do you realize these robots are not autonomous? They require a human to operate them. They are just as likely to be turned on US Servicement as an M1A1 or an Apache. |
| Order 66 did pertain to the clones and not the droids, but, for now, robots are as close as we've gotten to clones. Given most robots are remotely controlled, but they are getting more and more autonomy everyday. I don't believe it's too far fetched to imagine a soldier who refused to comply with an order or witnessed something they shouldn't have to get rubbed out my a "malfunctioning" droid. Yeah this is sci-fi sounding, but cellphones and handheld scanners were sci-fi in the 60s when Kirk and Spock were sporting them. The problem with robots is that they show how more and more people want to pass off responsibility for protecting America to robots. I think there is more to it than that. I believe there are people that realize most Americans are unwilling to accept an autocracy, which is where it appears our government is headed, an a robot soldier, with no alligance to the Constitution or the people, is going to be the best way to enforce a true police state. Think about how many more tickets most of us would have if we'd been stopped by a by-the-book robot versus a sympathetic human? Now imagine if the task was disarming a populace? |