This needs to be discussed.

  • ElKabong [none/use name]
    hexagon
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    3 years ago

    Unethical obviously.

    but if they feel genuine happiness from it... :agony-minion:

    • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Programming them that way to begin with is wrong. Wanting a slave is wrong. We should not promote slavery as desirable in a healthy society.

      Reprogram them to feel euphoria from drinking pumpkin spice instead :stalin-garrison:

    • keepcarrot [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      I mean, you could reframe designing cows that want to be eaten. By the point of the "genuine happiness", the unethical part has happened and has poisoned everything down the chain.

        • keepcarrot [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          This isn't about that, this is about the creating said person deliberately (in the hypothetical). If you just had a person like this in the wild, and they followed you around and did stuff for you, that'd be fine (though we'd probably have to talk about labour and emancipation on this communist forum). That being said, plenty of abused people "fawn" over their abusers, so from the outside it would probably raise some eyebrows. One could also talk about cults effectively doing this (finding vulnerable people and making them want to do free labour for the cult leaders), and the ethics of that, to take a real world example.