supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Star Wars has a massive existential problem, at least in the television and movie canon, of not being even remotely interested (except for a side plot in Solo?) in what the ethical implications of sentient robots is other than it is cute and sells toys.
MimicJar@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They do touch on it in Mandalorian season 3, episode 6 (“Chapter 22”). Although I don’t think they come to any conclusion that resolves any of the ethical implications.
K2SO also has an interesting line where he mentions being aware of events when he was under the Empires control.
Of course the real character of interest in this conversation is C3PO. His mind is wiped at the end of Revenge of the Sith and it’s viewed as a joke, but really only happens to explain why he knows nothing by the events of A New Hope.
They also “kill” him in Rise of Skywalker and try to make it a touching moment, but then just revive him again for laughs.
So for characters like C3PO I 100% agree. (Although he is comic relief, so maybe he’s a poor choice to base ethics on.)