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Robbing Delivery Robots Is Now a Thing (www.autoweek.com)
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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm far from a Luddite and I think robots in general are cool. But I kind of don't have an issue with people fucking up autonomous roaming robots. I haven't rationalized that opinion just yet, I guess. Just feels right.

Philly did nothing wrong

[–] chaircat@lemdro.id 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't think waving away being a Luddite just by saying so makes it so.

I can't think of a single angle of principled moral theory that makes this okay. Vandalizing or stealing someone else's property they paid for. Hurting both the restaurant and the customer by depriving them of their food. Holding back progress on an invention that can reduce the need for humans to engage in a type of work that is hard, dangerous at times, and low paid.

From a purely rational on paper view, it doesn't look terribly different than saying vandalizing or stealing from delivery vehicles driven by people isn't wrong. What possible justification could there be for this view besides Ludditism fuck robots?

[–] FredericChopin_@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

I wonder if people had more prospects would crime go down?

That’s a rhetorical question by the way. Petty crime is a failure of society.

[–] cyd@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You okay with people fucking up vending machines and ATMs too? Why or why not?

[–] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not OP, but I would like to state that I am ok with that. You pulled a human out of the loop, and that comes with risks. Business decision.

[–] chaircat@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't this justify vandalizing any type of machine whatsoever? Get in an elevator and nobody is looking? Stab the control panel so they have to get a human in the future making the elevator. See a car and no one is looking? Set it on fire so they have to use a human pulled rickshaw instead.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip -2 points 1 year ago

You're all making logical ethics arguments on a flippant emotional comment I made. You ever just have intrusive thoughts that make you just want to fuck some shit up? That's what these robots make me feel.