[x]Blackmoor Vituperative

Friday, 2016-05-06

C-3PO’s red arm

Filed under: Movies,Philosophy — bblackmoor @ 08:32

I think it’s telling that the only people in the Star Wars movies that treat robots as though they were people are Luke (who is desperately lonely) and Anakin (who is a mass-murdering, child-killing psychopath). To everyone else, the fact a machine can talk means no more than it does for you and I when our car tells us the door is open or our phone tells us that we have an appointment in 15 minutes.

That a robot has a red arm means exactly as much as the fact an old yellow Fiat has a red door.

Yellow Fiat with a red door