How Should Robot "Racism" Be Handled?

[StarOcean]

Luke888 said:

StarOcean said:

I don't think the first part is neccessarily true. Some robots may be made (in the future in this example) to be just like humans. I think the line between what is and isn't true sentience is where the debate of if they should be considered equals, starts

Sooo, what would be the purpose of a robot made to be just like a human ? a robot by definition is a semi-perfect machine, why would you want to humanize it, making it more flawed ?

Just for scientific purposes. Seeing how close we can get to making something life-like. Kinda like making realistic games, we don't HAVE to, we can create games with absolute perfect people, but people tend to prefer more like-like organic looks in their games, or some do, at least. Basically, because we can, because it's an interesting concept.