maple classic™ 
philosophy shitpost
me: "are robots people?"
me, later: "but what if robots don't WANT to be 'people'"
philosophy shitpost
@squirrel A friend and I once ended up writing this question on a whiteboard:
"Do robots people?"
...and now we ask it of each other all the time.
philosophy shitpost
@squirrel I'd say robots are eligible to be non-human persons but are only non-human persons if they want to be