Is it ethical to have sex with a robot?

#EvanPoll #poll

@evan

Only if the robot is programmed to consent enthusiastically.

@Blort if it's *programmed* to consent enthusiastically, is that real consent?

@evan

And here we rapidly devolve into debates about if it's possible for free will to exist, or if the universe is entirely mechanistic.

#PhilosophyFreeForAll

@Blort @evan philosophy and free will that's too advanced for me

*takes her doll pills*

@cwebber @Blort @evan before asking “is it ethical to have sex with robots”, we must first ask: is it ethical to have sex

@trwnh @cwebber @Blort @evan

[insert anti-AGAB joke here?]

@trwnh @cwebber @Blort @evan At least one answer is the Harkness Test.

@MxVerda more of an anti-sex joke

@dpflug @cwebber @Blort @evan this only works if you assume that consent is all you need for sex to be ethical

@dpflug @cwebber @Blort @evan of course caveats:

1) how you define "consent" matters. this is where the Harkness test could apply.

2) how you define "ethical" matters. for example, philosophical, religious, legal, etc.

3) how you define "sex" matters. which sex acts "count" here? how far does it categorically extend? we can say "oral counts" but then extend that to "kissing is oral" or go really broad and say "all intimate body contact" including handholding

@trwnh @dpflug @cwebber @evan

Handholding? How do you define "hand"? If an apendage with 5 finger like extremities is a machine and not human tissue, is it really a "hand"?

@Blort @dpflug @cwebber @evan it's more of a concept really

anyway, turtles all the way down,