People fall in love with Walls, pillows and videogames.  (People have been legitamitly "married" to all three.)

Could I?  Doubt it.  Could people?  Yea.

Were it to happen would I care about not having kids.

No.  I don't want kids now.

I guess, to answer that question, we have to define what love is.  I mean, I love my mom, my sisters, and my child.  That's about it, as far as I can tell.  I would die for any of them without hesitation if it meant that they would live.  For me, that's the most sincere definition of love (in the past, I'd be willing to die for other people but that was out of a sense of duty).  Now, would a person "love" an android enough to die for it?   I find that hard to believe. 

They may love the thought of having an android around and they may love the feelings and the companionship that an android may bring, but I promise you, the first time I walk into your house with a pistol and a single bullet (the second time, I'll bring three bullets), any person with any common sense is going to sacrifice that robot like a goat to *insert evil god name*.

So, no.  No love.  Also, stop watching so much sci-fi.

I have to AGREE with whoever COMMENTED on Darths TITLES.

They make me cry on the inside.

Anyway, on topic. People fall in love with silly things, however if its possible to program an Android to have emotions - is it even silly or wrong to fall in love with one?

If people can have romantic relationships with cars I don't see why you could possibly think that people wouldn't fall in love with things designed to replicate humans. Hell just google RealDoll man, I saw a doco about them once and several people were to the point of trying to get married to them and they are inanimate... 

Even now, we would find a place in our heart for androids we see in movies, but only the ones with a perfect AI (like Johnny-5). These androids act so real, over time you forget you're not talking to a real person.

Humans can't help but form bonds...it's only natural. Even when you deactivate it, inevitable sadness kicks in....but in a much worse form than if your TV or console stops working.

NO DISASSEMBLE!!

If this is true now then I think that it will be in the future..

I think you've been watching to much science fiction. lol

if you can marry a DS than yes

I think I could definitely fall in love with an Android. If it was real enough and could adapt to the constant social/political changes in the world and such, I don't see why not. Very interesting topic...

1. In a world like that could you ever fall in love with an Android?

Yes, as long as I'm not married or something :P

2. Would you always feel they have a "fake" personality based on trying to adjust to the new trends? 

Uh... Umm... I don't think I'd even think about how real their personality is. As long as I fall in love with her and she loves me too and we are happy toghether, why should I even care about thinking about meaningless stuff like that? :P If robots have their own personality, the only difference between theirs and ours would be the way we aquired it (the personality).

Some say personality is kind of predetermined by genes. Let's take that as true. Now, that "base personality" we are born with can be affected by many things, changing it. Those things could be:

The "environment" (Country you're born in, its culture, your social position during your life, the people you interact with and the stuff you learn from them, your school, your job, the "time" you live in (during an economical crisis, a war, a revolution, etc))

Your physical "features" (sorry, my english is crap, lol) (if you're born without a leg or have some kind of disorder, your personality will be different had you been "normal")

The events you experience during your life (Someone in your family dies, you suffer an accident or stuff like that... "meaningless" events can also change your personality, too... they just don't usually impact you the same way as those "more important" events... if you get what I mean O_o)

Etc (Can't bother thinking of other examples, lol)

Well, that's for humans... now... if robots have their pre-programmed Personality and can learn stuff just like humans and change their personality because of the same things humans change theirs, then there's no difference between both. One was pre-determined by genes and changed during the course of life, the other was pre-programmed and changed during the course of life. They both had a "base personality" and changed it during the course of life... there's no difference in my eyes :P

3. Would you always feel they have been "programmed" to act in this way? 

I will KNOW the have been programmed to act that way, but like I said before, it's kind of the same case with humans :P

4. Would you be afraid of what your "human" friends/families will think?

LOL, I wouldn't care about what they think, if I love her and she loves me and we are happy toghether, we'll just get married and live our own life :P

5. Would you regret not being able to have a child?

I'll just clone myself or something... But I want to have a daughter, not a boy :P so... if I clone myself I'll get a boy :S. Well... whatever :P

6. How will you make a difference between whats "real" and what isn't? Because we are all also run on a genetic code, the DNA with the 4 major bases (ATGC). Similarly these androids will be running on a code of zero's and one's...

Uh... as far as I know the zero's and one's are real, too :P Besides... how can you be so sure that all this is "real"... what is "real"?  O_O :P We could very well be in the Matrix xD(I'm kidding and being serious at the same time, lol)

7. In the future do you think this could actually become a serious ethical issue? By the future we mean possibly several centuries in the future......

It could become an ethical issue in less than 1 century in my opinion... but I know it will be discussed and solved very quickly and several contries will start changing their constitutions to include robots, changing penal codes (or whatever they're called in english), civil codes, etc.