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from the what-are-these-girls-you-speak-of? dept.
RealDoll, after almost 20 years of selling "the world's finest love doll," is developing an animated, robotic, artificially intelligent head that can be switched onto existing RealDoll bodies. The purpose, according to RealDoll's founder and CEO Matt McMullen, is to "arouse someone on an emotional, intellectual level, beyond the physical."
If you haven't heard of RealDoll before, the company makes expensive ($5,000-$10,000, £3,200-£6,400) but very realistic sex dolls. The dolls (which come in male and female varieties) have fully poseable skeletons, silicone skin, and are roughly the same weight and size as a real human. The dolls have interchangeable faces and orifices.
The reality that Westworld and AI imagined decades ago has arrived. What are the ethical implications? Would you be willing to use one?
Original Submission
(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Wednesday June 17 2015, @06:25PM
Production of child porn harms children.
Yes, production.
Imagine a butcher who sells human meat. How should we treat the customers of that butcher (assuming they know they buy human meat, of course)? Should they not be arrested because, after all, they didn't kill those humans, they only bought their meat after they were already dead?
Correct. Arrest people who take harmful actions.
And I'm sure there are plenty of cases where people obtain child pornography without paying for it at all. While lack of gain is not harm, using the logic of copyright thugs, this harms the producers, making it a net win. But their logic is broken anyway.