The Humanoid Component

If the rumba can suffer, if you've built a mechanical slave that you can't possibly ympathize with. We may be constructing conscious creatures and then tormenting them. Or alternatively, we may be creating creatures that ar, machines that do our bidding and have no consciousness at all. Is no worse to assault the robot in west world than it is tanotip to bang a hammer against your toaster. But so that's the moral question.