[ExI] Slavery in the Future

[John Grigg]

Lee Corbin wrote:
If they've been created to do work (i.e. for some purpose), then
in my view they belong to their creators. And for me, it's especially
unproblematical if aren't suffering, but are rather enjoying it. (And
why shouldn't they enjoy it? Even now, drugs are cheap, and
there shouldn't be a premium at all on a very pleasant existence
in the future for created entities.)
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Oh, my gosh!  I can't believe you said these things! : (  I feel like you
are advocating the "enlightened" enslaving of genetically engineered
sentients!  A biological sentient conditioned by drugs and/or genetic
engineering to enjoy his/her/its slavery (oh, but they will never use this
word...) is still a slave.  "Oh, brave new world!"

you wrote:
If they've been created to do work (i.e. for some purpose), then
in my view they belong to their creators.
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This would be very very wrong.  But I could see laws set up whereby a
"created" sentient is a decently treated "endentured servant" for a number
of years to "pay back" their creator.  At a certain point the sentient gets
the choice of moving on, all debts paid, or staying on and being reimbursed
like a regular employee for their work.

John Grigg
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