CMDR Locke wrote...
ThanesSniper wrote...
ZoSo159 wrote...
Why does everyone say the Quarians committed genocide? The geth are robots they are not alive. Legion even tells Shepard not to compare geth to organics because the geth are machines.
Life is defined as the property or quality that distinguishes living organisms from dead organisms and inanimate matter, manifested in functions such as metabolism, growth, reproduction, and response to stimuli or adaptation to the environment originating from within the organism.
www.thefreedictionary.com/life
Geth have internal reactions, grow, reproduce, and respond to outside stimuli. Maybe not in the classical sense, but they still satisfy the qualifications of being "alive".
So all computer viruses are alive then? Good to know next time you run malware call the cops and turn yourself in please.
Microsoft word, has internal reactions, it can grow, and reproduce, and damn sure responds to outside stimuli. Next time you delete a document call the cops and report a murder.
If you format your hard drive you've committed genocide, call the UN and let them know you're guilty of war crimes.
Clouds have internal reaction, they grow, reproduce, and respond to outside stimuli, they're SENTIENT OMG RAWR!!
Lol, I'm actually shocked at how wrong this post is. First off, I'm arguing for the Geth being alive. Ants are also alive, but if I go and kill an ant, I'm not going to turn myself in for murder. That would be determined by sentience, which I do believe the Geth possess, but that's a whole separate issue.
Computer viruses do not respond to outside stimuli, and do not contain internal reactions.
Microsoft word does not respond to outside stimuli, it cannot reproduce, and it does not have internal reactions.
A hard drive does not respond to outside stimuli, does not reproduce, and does not grow.
Clouds do not respond to outside stimuli, and they don't reproduce.
Like I said, the Geth do not possess the
classical sense of life (breathing and eating). The fact that you believe there can only be one form of living, that only humans and other organics can be defined as alive, is incredibly close minded. I know I won't convince you that Geth are alive, sentient, and deserve our acknowledgement as such, but hopefully I'm giving others the opportunity to think about the Geth in different perspectives than just "Geth are machines, destroy them all!"
Modifié par ThanesSniper, 13 août 2011 - 03:05 .