Human attitudes towards droids
Posted: 2004-09-24 01:26pm
I haven't read many of the books, I just have the movies to go by, but isn't it weird the way that humans treat droids?
Its like they can't decide whether they are really sentient or not, even though, in some cases, they clearly are. Like the restraining bolt thing... why would you need that if they are just programmable hardware that will do whatever you tell them? If there is a clear danger that they will run off or rebel, doesn't that kind of say that they are alive?
The other thing is how they are kind of ignored. They don't really seem to be treated as combatants or suspected of treachery. In ANH the stormtroopers aren't suspicious of them at all when they find them barricaded in that room.
Shouldn't there be droids that are independently wealthy and powerful, a force to be reckoned with in their own right, not simply the tools of humans? They are effectively immortal, and highly intelligent. It just seems like there would be a race of C3P0-esque droids that take no crap from anyone.
Is there anything like that in any of the books?
Its like they can't decide whether they are really sentient or not, even though, in some cases, they clearly are. Like the restraining bolt thing... why would you need that if they are just programmable hardware that will do whatever you tell them? If there is a clear danger that they will run off or rebel, doesn't that kind of say that they are alive?
The other thing is how they are kind of ignored. They don't really seem to be treated as combatants or suspected of treachery. In ANH the stormtroopers aren't suspicious of them at all when they find them barricaded in that room.
Shouldn't there be droids that are independently wealthy and powerful, a force to be reckoned with in their own right, not simply the tools of humans? They are effectively immortal, and highly intelligent. It just seems like there would be a race of C3P0-esque droids that take no crap from anyone.
Is there anything like that in any of the books?