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Again, I contend that within the context of the story, the use of robots is only a vehicle to explore the issue of how children are treated by adults. Sure, SS has sent a message that we must generally be careful with our actions (global warming for one), but the profound message is more specific to what happens to the children. If he's "rooting for the meca's", it's really, again, only a metaphor for identifying the real victims of adult human narcissism and greed. And one of the things we know from research and data is that a statistically significant percentage of victims become perpetrators, as do most of the human adults in the film. The William Hurt character, the mother, the father, the guy who killed his wife, the fans at the Flesh Fair, are all narcissistic perpetrators, to one degree or another.


>> "If you create something capable of loving you, are you morally
obligated to love it in return?" << Why would it be pretentious in any way to answer this question? It's probably the whole premise of the story. Of course we are morally obligated. We take on the obligation every time we choose to deliver a new being into the world. And for the most part we fail miserably at fulfilling our obligation. By the way, my face looked just like David's every time my parents made me eat liver.


I will again put forth my conviction that most of the complaints of structure, technological incongruities, and such, are ways we can distract ourselves from the painful truth of the story. It's just a simple story about how, if parents could create the perfect child, they would still find a way to screw it up.


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