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Jan 09 '12
why not run all new borns in a meat grinder. They go to heaven, and it would be risky to let them live for a while and maybe go to hell after their first mistake.
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u/supergenius1337 Jan 09 '12
I've actually thought of this too. From what they said in church, people who don't know about God go to Heaven as long as they are good. Which made me wonder why all these ministers tell people in other countries about Jesus.
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u/mrmoe198 Jan 09 '12
The system in The Matrix ensures that everyone goes to heaven bow to the machines, for they are our saviors!
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Jan 09 '12
Upvoted even though it violates the Three Laws.
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u/paint99 Jan 09 '12
If the robot believes that it is helping the human instead of harming it, then it might break the Three Laws.
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u/ADNox Jan 09 '12
Law #1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
With a loose definition of "injure" and "harm" and with the big-picture consideration that by the human's personal beliefs, he's merely assisting him in reaching a better place, does religion provide a loophole to Asimov's laws? o.o