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94 - Robot Friendship and Hatred

Philosophical Disquisitions

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Can You Hate a Robot?

The reasons why people object to positive relationships between humans and robots have to do, usually, with reciprocity related conditions. And if you remove the need for that reciprocity condition, then it's not as osophically contentious to say that we can hate robots or things. But i still think we can make some interesting philosophical and ethical claims even when reciprocity is not present in cases of hatred. Even when they are a symmetrical and unreciprocated, have morally salient features. So they often involve a symmetrical power relation. For example, a dominant and socially powerful group hating a minority that can perceive to be dangerous. They can also involve certain behaviours like othering, discrimination

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