Post by Ryn on Mar 10, 2014 17:56:55 GMT
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Welcome to H.O.P.E. your orbiting shelter from the devastation of Earth's surface. It's been 497 years since the apocalypse and things are not improving. The population is at 672 people and 209 androids. A year ago there had been twice as many humans, until a rabid fever spread through the community killing half the population and leaving two thirds of the survivors infertile. Extinction seemed imminent.
Recently two specialists unveiled their life's work- a project which took half a century to see realized. Unlike their robotic counterparts biodroids are completely human and made of 100% organic materials. Their skin, eyes, hair, and even blood are completely real. They are not clones. Their DNA is handcrafted through a classified technique known only to the creators. Their plan was to introduce fully functioning, healthy humans with which to rebuild the population. Unfortunately, society refuses to treat them as such. If it lives, breathes, and bleeds- if it has a conscience, morals, goals, and dreams does the fact that it's intelligence is artificial mean that is not alive? Should these biodroids have human rights?
The Commission is heavily debating the introduction of biodroid civil liberties. Can a human be crafted in a lab? Or should these beings be considered nothing more than robots with skin? If a human's rights remain intact after their voluntary alteration into a cyborg why should these biodroids with equal intelligence, freewill, and emotion have no rights at all? Where do we draw The Line?
[/align]Welcome to H.O.P.E. your orbiting shelter from the devastation of Earth's surface. It's been 497 years since the apocalypse and things are not improving. The population is at 672 people and 209 androids. A year ago there had been twice as many humans, until a rabid fever spread through the community killing half the population and leaving two thirds of the survivors infertile. Extinction seemed imminent.
Recently two specialists unveiled their life's work- a project which took half a century to see realized. Unlike their robotic counterparts biodroids are completely human and made of 100% organic materials. Their skin, eyes, hair, and even blood are completely real. They are not clones. Their DNA is handcrafted through a classified technique known only to the creators. Their plan was to introduce fully functioning, healthy humans with which to rebuild the population. Unfortunately, society refuses to treat them as such. If it lives, breathes, and bleeds- if it has a conscience, morals, goals, and dreams does the fact that it's intelligence is artificial mean that is not alive? Should these biodroids have human rights?
The Commission is heavily debating the introduction of biodroid civil liberties. Can a human be crafted in a lab? Or should these beings be considered nothing more than robots with skin? If a human's rights remain intact after their voluntary alteration into a cyborg why should these biodroids with equal intelligence, freewill, and emotion have no rights at all? Where do we draw The Line?
