International Experts Warn EU Against Offering Robots ‘Personhood’

[I Love An Atheist]

International Experts Warn EU Against Offering Robots 'Personhood' | Breitbart

"Robotics manufacturers and their affiliates are campaigning for a limited 'electronic personality' to be granted to their high-tech automatons, but experts around the world are pushing back."

 

[church mouse guy]

They have already given animals rights and protected plant rights.

 

[I Love An Atheist]

They have already given animals rights and protected plant rights.

Do you have a link? I actually didn't know that. Rights? Not just legal protection? How does one give a plant rights?

 

[church mouse guy]

Do you have a link? I actually didn't know that. Rights? Not just legal protection? How does one give a plant rights?

Switzerland has been advocating in the area of plants. The way I understand it, once you have planted flowers, then you have to follow government policy on that type of plant.

Plants' Rights

It isn't just the rights of animals that some are promoting. The Weekly Standard reports an ethics panel in Switzerland is expressing concern that the arbitrary killing of plants is morally wrong. The Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology says that humans cannot claim "absolute ownership" over plants; that "individual plants have an inherent worth," and that man may not use them as he pleases.

It cites a hypothetical example of a farmer "decapitating" wildflowers as expressing a moral stance toward the organism and possibly doing something bad to the flowers themselves.
One critic of the report says the concept of plant dignity provides what he called "another tool of opponents to argue against any form of plant biotechnology."

— FOX News Channel's Martin Hill contributed to this report.

Switzerland Wants to Protect the Rights of Plants

 

[I Love An Atheist]

The Silent Scream of the Asparagus

Found the original article in the Weekly Standard. Interesting article. I agree with the author's analysis of the root cause:

"Why is this happening? Our accelerating rejection of the Judeo-Christian world view, which upholds the unique dignity and moral worth of human beings, is driving us crazy. Once we knocked our species off its pedestal, it was only logical that we would come to see fauna and flora as entitled to rights."

 

[church mouse guy]

And the Swiss are the richest people in the world. They are very cold-blooded.

 

[Matt Black]

But not in the EU

 

[church mouse guy]

But not in the EU

Never knew that. I would have thought that they would have been the first to sign up.

 

[Matt Black]

Switzerland has resolutely held out on joining; the Swiss like to plough their own furrow