Help Revive Hitchbot, the Canadian Robot that Americans Destroyed
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The 'all "Americans"' didn't destroy the robot, they're just fertile ground for the assholes who did. It like 'all Muslims' aren't terrorists, they just fertile ground for terrorists.
The philosophical question remains - when does it cross over from being classified as destruction of property to something like assault.
People have been defacing and destroying property since forever, regardless of what it looks like.
> when does it cross over from being classified as destruction of property to something like assault.
When it becomes sentient and capable of protesting whatever is happening to it?
Whoever did that to the robot would shit a brick if the robot started screaming.
I would assume so, but the robot looked vaguely humanoid, with a smiley face and all. Someone of a sane mind should feel bad defacing such a thing, but seeing as they didn't, they perhaps wouldn't have batted an eye if it had started screaming.
Now if it had pulled a gun, on the other hand...