I definitely get that, I find discussion on art that has these kind of topics always a bit hard because I definitely get wanting to not have it at all and I see lots of good reasons supporting that, but I can also see value in art that depicts things like this. But then of course so much of the time when something like this gets made it's just for cheap shock or discomfort at best and at worst it's, like you said, wish fulfillment for troubled people.
I can also see value in art that depicts things like this
I'd think of it like I'd think of a rod of plutonium.
Yes, there is definitely value in plutonium existing and in professionals studying, experimenting, and even using it for a few very niche industrial applications. But I wouldn't just put plutonium into the discount bin of my neighborhood Walmart.
You can have a very high level conversation about the fuzzy questions of artificial intelligence, the human conception of love, and the guidelines of human morality that live in between. But that's not the conversation this movie/novel would inspire in, like, 95% of the audience.
I definitely get that, I find discussion on art that has these kind of topics always a bit hard because I definitely get wanting to not have it at all and I see lots of good reasons supporting that, but I can also see value in art that depicts things like this. But then of course so much of the time when something like this gets made it's just for cheap shock or discomfort at best and at worst it's, like you said, wish fulfillment for troubled people.
I'd think of it like I'd think of a rod of plutonium.
Yes, there is definitely value in plutonium existing and in professionals studying, experimenting, and even using it for a few very niche industrial applications. But I wouldn't just put plutonium into the discount bin of my neighborhood Walmart.
You can have a very high level conversation about the fuzzy questions of artificial intelligence, the human conception of love, and the guidelines of human morality that live in between. But that's not the conversation this movie/novel would inspire in, like, 95% of the audience.