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1/18/2018 9:18:50 AM
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I'm going to channel my inner Hitl- I mean Maxson and say no
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Why not, may I ask? :o
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Tbh because every time I play Fallout 4, I role-play a die-hard BoS soldier. In reality I would think synths are not people per se but do deserve the same rights as a human being. I would agree with Maxson in that synths should not continue to be produced, but I would disagree with killing all existing synths, except for the early generation ones and the ones that are clearly still allied with the Institute
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Fair enough. Tell me, though, let’s say you were a synth, and that synths were the dominant life on the planet. On this mostly synth world, you find a small aclove of humans. After some political debate, their fate falls to you. If we apply this same logic that you’re applying to these synths, you let the humans live, and they have rights, but you tell them they have to stop reproducing. That they have to live out the rest of their lives as the last humans in existence, slowly watching their kind die off, naturally or otherwise, until they too join the graveyard, and are eternally lost to history. Does that sound fair? Watching this species slowly die off, just because it’s not lime you?
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Edited by Nobody: 1/18/2018 10:14:41 AMNow that you put it like that it brings something that I've never thought of before to mind; can synths reproduce with humans? If they could, I'd say "go nuts." I'm speaking from a synths-are-sterile standpoint mixed with a practical standpoint; Synths are made in a lab with machinery, and if something were to happen to that machinery, or somehow the instructions to make a synth are lost, then BAM, no more synths. So theoretically if enough synths were made and they began to outnumber humans, then humans could die off while synths are simultaneously stuck slowly decaying. I know it's a really, really specific and obscure theoretical situation but that's my belief. But anyways, if the synths have functional human reproductive systems then I would see no problem with allowing them to reproduce with a human. Although if you're capable of reproducing, why do you need to make a synth? Just have a baby. Edit: And no, that doesn't sound fair *-*
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Whenever talking about non-humans being equal with humans, and then needing to discuss rights, always flip the situation. If it’s not something you’d do to your own kind, it’s not something you should do to theirs. I don’t know about synth reproduction, but if you allow synths access to the knowledge on making more synths, then problem solved, or if the designs are modified to include some sort of reproductive system that could work too. Or, in your scenario, if humans go extinct, and synths are all that are left, then oh well. They should be able to build their own society, including some way to keep their numbers thriving, or possibly even bioengineer new humans. After all, these are thinking, living, machines, not programmed computers.
