Poll: Would you own a servant (or "slave", for the dramatic)?

[McElroy]

Oh yeah... gimme a sec.

My Master is kindly letting me answer this question. My Master's answer is a resounding "What do you mean 'would'?" I'm not normally allowed to use my Master's computer, but Master felt this thread warranted a special occasion. I'm thrilled to post in this thread and I can only hope my Master is satisfied.

And satisfied he is.

 

[Secondhand Revenant]

"Servent" eh?

Is this about fucking submissive anime gi... oh, yep, there we go, it's about fucking submissive anime girls.

No. No I wouldn't. Slavery is messed up.

Coming up with a fantastical scenario to justify it doesn't make it any less creepy. It's like someone saying, "Would you torture a puppy if I found you a specially bred kind of puppy that really, really wanted to be tortured?"

LOL

I love that comparison. It's creepy to want a torture-puppy even if it likes it. It's creepy to want a slave utterly devoted to you even if they're willing. It's creepy to want someone to want that...

I mean, I don't see a problem with engineering a robot to want to serve. But I'd still find it creepy as hell if it had a personality and its own identity and all it wanted was to serve me... It'd feel identical to a real person wanting it which is itself creepy...

This reminds me of that episode of Supernatural where the people of a town suddenly get their every wish granted. This one dude wished his crush to love and devote herself to him utterly and unconditionally, and in the end he just felt miserable about it, when the crush's whole life only revolved around him and how much she loved him, and nothing else.

I don't recall that episode but unless it's really recent I must have seen it. At first I thought this was going towards the one that started with the two lovers eating each other alive.

 

[Secondhand Revenant]

No, enslaving anything is a bad idea that will eventually lead to a revolt. It's as inevitable as death and gravity.

I don't care for the idea, but I'm not seeing how it ends in revolt if for some reason these slaves want to be slaves.

 

[kurokotetsu]

Look at my avatar. DO you know what that means? Can you imagine my answer?

In a very special sense not only I would, I already do. I won a perfect little slave that I love very muhc. That is the thing of a BDSM relationship, you can own someone in a loving way. But I prefer her for otehr activites that chores, theu are much more fun and satisfying. Love every second of it (and going for two years soon).

In your scenario of buying something and not a willing salve out of her own violition? Hell no. An engineered thing has nothing to do with the real article.

I will stay wiht owning my willing a loving salve and let you wiht your artificial things.

 

[DefunctTheory]

Spoiler

"Servent" eh?

Is this about fucking submissive anime gi... oh, yep, there we go, it's about fucking submissive anime girls.

No. No I wouldn't. Slavery is messed up.

Coming up with a fantastical scenario to justify it doesn't make it any less creepy. It's like someone saying, "Would you torture a puppy if I found you a specially bred kind of puppy that really, really wanted to be tortured?"

LOL

I love that comparison. It's creepy to want a torture-puppy even if it likes it. It's creepy to want a slave utterly devoted to you even if they're willing. It's creepy to want someone to want that...

I mean, I don't see a problem with engineering a robot to want to serve. But I'd still find it creepy as hell if it had a personality and its own identity and all it wanted was to serve me... It'd feel identical to a real person wanting it which is itself creepy...

This reminds me of that episode of Supernatural where the people of a town suddenly get their every wish granted. This one dude wished his crush to love and devote herself to him utterly and unconditionally, and in the end he just felt miserable about it, when the crush's whole life only revolved around him and how much she loved him, and nothing else.

I don't recall that episode but unless it's really recent I must have seen it. At first I thought this was going towards the one that started with the two lovers eating each other alive.

It's the wishing well episode, where someone drops a cursed coin into a wishing pool in a Chinese restaurant. It's the episode that has a giant, man sized teddy bear who drinks, smoke, watches porn, and attempts (Unsuccessfully) to kill itself with a shotgun.

Yes. What? Did people forget about Alfred from Batman and to a extent Jarvis from Iron Man (this include both movie and comicbook version of him).

Alfred could, if he wished, leave and stop serving Wayne Manor. As described by the OP, I don't think that's the case here.

Jarvis... one could make that argument I guess. But for all the concern the Avengers show for Jarvis when they think he's destroyed, I don't think he's really sentient, just really complicated and well programmed.

 

[Hoplon]

No, enslaving anything is a bad idea that will eventually lead to a revolt. It's as inevitable as death and gravity.

I don't care for the idea, but I'm not seeing how it ends in revolt if for some reason these slaves want to be slaves.

Because anything intelligent has a mind it might change.

 

[Secondhand Revenant]

Spoiler

"Servent" eh?

Is this about fucking submissive anime gi... oh, yep, there we go, it's about fucking submissive anime girls.

No. No I wouldn't. Slavery is messed up.

Coming up with a fantastical scenario to justify it doesn't make it any less creepy. It's like someone saying, "Would you torture a puppy if I found you a specially bred kind of puppy that really, really wanted to be tortured?"

LOL

I love that comparison. It's creepy to want a torture-puppy even if it likes it. It's creepy to want a slave utterly devoted to you even if they're willing. It's creepy to want someone to want that...

I mean, I don't see a problem with engineering a robot to want to serve. But I'd still find it creepy as hell if it had a personality and its own identity and all it wanted was to serve me... It'd feel identical to a real person wanting it which is itself creepy...

This reminds me of that episode of Supernatural where the people of a town suddenly get their every wish granted. This one dude wished his crush to love and devote herself to him utterly and unconditionally, and in the end he just felt miserable about it, when the crush's whole life only revolved around him and how much she loved him, and nothing else.

I don't recall that episode but unless it's really recent I must have seen it. At first I thought this was going towards the one that started with the two lovers eating each other alive.

It's the wishing well episode, where someone drops a cursed coin into a wishing pool in a Chinese restaurant. It's the episode that has a giant, man sized teddy bear who drinks, smoke, watches porn, and attempts (Unsuccessfully) to kill itself with a shotgun.

RIGHT THAT ONE

I remember that teddy bear XD

 

[GrumbleGrump]

They're fully sentient beings (in order to better perform their tasks) but they actually want to serve and become upset/sad when they're not used to do things.

That's kind of a sticking point isn't it? If not serving causes them then some sort of pain or distress then, yeah, it'd be in it's best interests I guess. I wouldn't seek them out or buy one though, I would find it kind of creepy. I'd be against their mistreatment, of course, as they are sentient.

 

[Pirate Of PC Master race]

If and only if such being actually wants to serve.

Which is why I support creation of servant race willing to serve, assuming there is one.

However, I wouldn't say that they have free will, or even sentient... is there such thing when they are literally coded to serve you?

Oh, and I would get attached. I would cry if one of them dies somehow.

P.S: if it does have sentient and has free will as much as/greater than human beings, then I wouldn't call it ownership. It is master of its destiny, and it is free to spend its life wherever it wants - including helping me for some inexplicable reason.

P.S.S: For clear meaning, I would say that something has "free will" when it can willingly and intentionally override whatever function it was created for. i.e suicide before reproduction - which happens a lot in my home country.

 

[Vanilla ISIS]

Depends:
1. How much would it cost to buy one?
2. How much would it cost to maintain one?
3. What if it would malfunction and tried to kill me?
4. what if someone would hack it?

 

[WolfThomas]

No I think slavery is the vilest of humans sins for the abuse it's silently perpetuates. Victims of slavery, especially those indoctrinated cannot give genuine consent to too, even if on the appearance they do.

Yet. For some reason I'll argue until I'm blue in the face that Imperial Slaves in Elite Dangerous, aren't really slaves.

 

[DEAD34345]

No, enslaving anything is a bad idea that will eventually lead to a revolt. It's as inevitable as death and gravity.

You do realise slavery was an extremely common thing across practically the entire world for most of human history? From what I understand, revolts were extremely uncommon, and successful ones even rarer. In fact, the only successful slave revolt I know of was the Haitian revolution, and that was a very unusual situation where something ridiculous like 90% of the population were slaves. Even then it worked pretty well until the French revolution happened and people started getting ideas about human rights, and even then the whole thing was started off by free people revolting over taxes and shit.

Oppose slavery for moral reasons, not because it's dangerous. Historically speaking, it mostly wasn't.

OT: I try to base my morals on some kind of utalitarianism, so... If they wanted to serve and would become unhappy if not allowed to... Then... Maybe?

Honestly it's the creepiness factor that is the main barrier. I suppose if I was brought up in a situation where this was normal though that wouldn't be a concern, and I can't see anything obviously wrong with it morally speaking, it isn't harming anyone as far as I can tell, and is in fact helping the servant in this theoretical situation. So that makes it morally right.

I think.

It still seems icky.

 

[DefunctTheory]

I know some people are being silly with their votes and everything, but... 15 people said yes. Kind of creeping me out. I'm curious, did people who voted yes actually read this bit.

So I thought; if a company or government came out with an android or robot or even an actual flesh+blood being (like the DearS) to be used as so, would you buy one? Would you want even if one was given to you?

The implication is that these aren't naturally occurring beings that want to serve, but sentient beings that have been crafted to serve, and with sentience. Which means it's the actions of a human being that has put them into 'willing' slavery.

Why? Would you would you also accept a 'glad' slave if they were actually humans who had their biology tweaked to make them want to serve? Genetically viable human minds altered to be subservient? Is that ok with you all too?

I know this is probably bothering me more then it should... but damn.

 

[Something Amyss]

"Servent" eh?

Is this about fucking submissive anime gi... oh, yep, there we go, it's about fucking submissive anime girls.

No. No I wouldn't. Slavery is messed up.

Coming up with a fantastical scenario to justify it doesn't make it any less creepy. It's like someone saying, "Would you torture a puppy if I found you a specially bred kind of puppy that really, really wanted to be tortured?"

It's even more fucked up when you consider this was a literal excuse for owning black people in the US. "Look how happy they are, singing in the fields! They want to be kept! They need to be kept!"

 

[Captain Marvelous_v1legacy]

Probably. Though, the more I think about it, the less I like it. The idea of artificial slaves "wanting" to be used to the point where they're upset when they aren't is... beyond weird. I'd feel so bad for them, forced into a life of slavery and forced to like it. And if I get attached I wouldn't want to treat them like slaves anymore and that'd just make them sad and... You know what? I don't want one anymore. I talked myself out of it. :\

I'd probably be the guy who got overly attached, taught it too much about and life and caused it to start the servant revolution leading to the death of humanity, which would be bad.

I dunno. Doesn't sound all that bad to me.

 

[Pirate Of PC Master race]

I know some people are being silly with their votes and everything, but... 15 people said yes. Kind of creeping me out. I'm curious, did people who voted yes actually read this bit.

So I thought; if a company or government came out with an android or robot or even an actual flesh+blood being (like the DearS) to be used as so, would you buy one? Would you want even if one was given to you?

The implication is that these aren't naturally occurring beings that want to serve, but sentient beings that have been crafted to serve, and with sentience. Which means it's the actions of a human being that has put them into 'willing' slavery.

Why? Would you would you also accept a 'glad' slave if they were actually humans who had their biology tweaked to make them want to serve? Genetically viable human minds altered to be subservient? Is that ok with you all too?

I know this is probably bothering me more then it should... but damn.

Does matter of "creator" impact your choice? I guess many disapprove of "evil" organization which produces&profits from servile beings... however, as I did mention I do not view them as sentient.

Nothing is special about human mind, nor its genetics. Of course unless you are talking about removing existing free will from sentient being. Being born as a slave(no free will) is fine by me.

 

[thewatergamer]

Uhhh...no? Hell I would probably be against that sort of thing, just because it isn't "born" or the fact that its entire purpose is meant to serve doesn't mean I'm going to be ok with it being enslaved, it is a bit of a complicated subject sure but...yeah probably not

 

[kris40k]

Look at my avatar. DO you know what that means? Can you imagine my answer?

As a matter of fact, when I read the title, I was thinking, "Huh, I wonder where kurokotetsu is..."

As far as my answer, yes, as long as the servant/slave enjoys it.

 

[Ambitiousmould]

No. If it's a slave, that's an outright no for obvious reasons. If, however, they are a servant/butler that does it for a wage as a job it would be a calculated no. Partly because it's way too rich for my blood, but mainly because I hate talking to people and especially making requests more than I hate work. Asking for things makes me feel a right ****, and expecting them to do it would make me feel worse.



Except if it's a printer. I am convinced that they are sentient AI that are all just out to make our lives miserable and full of hate and anger.

 

[Tiamattt]

Wow this turned out to be a lot more awkward than I expected it to be. Slavery is a definite no-go, at best if I had the money I would hire someone but that would be a employee, not a slave. The robot thing I would be more inclined to do, but then again that sounds like how the Matrix wars got started so...........maybe not.