Historically there were plenty of rationalizations for slavery, including ones holding that slaves weren’t really people and were on par with animals. Such an argument would be much easier for a mind running on a computer and with no physical body—“oh it just copies the appearance of suffering but it doesn’t really suffer”.
Historically there were plenty of rationalizations for slavery, including ones holding that slaves weren’t really people and were on par with animals. Such an argument would be much easier for a mind running on a computer and with no physical body—“oh it just copies the appearance of suffering but it doesn’t really suffer”.