I Now Pronounce you Husband and Robot!

Wow...one question pops to my mind when I read that title: WHAT'S NEXT!?

It's understandable that technology has advanced society in numerous and vast ways, but to me, it seems like it's taking a step backwards now. I believe people have taken it way too far this time to try and create robots who people can actually marry and have sex with. Machines are taking over our lives slowly, but it's ridiculous to know that someday we will hear in the news that someone got married to a robot. Think about it! How funny does that sound? How will your social life, let alone your whole life change? I would be quite shocked to hear that someone actually went along with this bizarre idea.

In the article Sex and marriage with robots? It could happen, it mentions briefly how this would benefit those who are unable to form relationships due to physical appearance or unpleasant personalities. Personally, I find that quite absurd. Wouldn't you rather stay single then marry a robot? I sure as hell would!

Also, don't you find it ironic how last week’s discussion was about marriage rates decreasing in society as there are more unmarried couple then married ones, and now we’re thinking about marriage with robots? In my opinion, I think this would cause a larger decrease in marriage rates.

Robots are for storing database information, not for loving!
This relates to Allan Turing’s theory, in that machines are matched up with human intelligence. Sure, that's logical, but the idea of having a human being marrying a robot is not getting into my head. Yes, maybe it can be proved that a machine can think because it’s programmed that way, but to have emotions and feelings the same way humans express their sensations and affection is impossible in my point of view.
Why are we playing with God’s creation? A man and a woman are meant to get married and have children; not a man and another man, or a man and animals, and certainly not a man and robots!

Here's an interesting video that I thought related to this topic.

Work Cited:
Alexandre Sévigny. Introduction to Communication. Revised Printing. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company: 2005, 2006.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKCabPiYPRs

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