I did not know where else to put this thread. The question is if anyone has ever been disturbed by the way droids are treated in this universe at times, even by the heroes? Some droids are obviously more or less sentient. They feel things like fear and anxiety and some have unique personalities. I don't think they necessarily start out this way, but it is possible the longer they go without a memory wipe the more "sentient" they become.
Which then we get to the next point which is the droids are basically slaves usually not given a choice. They are often treated as expendable, even by the good guys, though obviously you have some exceptions. Anakin seemed fond of R2, in the same way someone might be fond of a dog though.
So they are slaves sometimes forced to commit horrible deeds, even genocide. They obviously have feelings by some point in their existence and then if you memory wipe them at that point isn't it sort of like a lobotomy?
I don't know why, but I think about these things sometimes when I see a Star Wars droid get mowed down. I am actually reminded of one scene from the Clone Wars cartoon where it shows a bunch of damaged droids crawling on the ground and begging for help and their legs are damaged so they can't walk and they legitimately seem to be suffering.
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That droid seem to have feelings doesn't mean they actually have them. For example, C3P0 seems to act as if he is afraid but does he actually feel fear or is it just a quirk in his programming? Impossible to tell really. I always figured they weren't truly sentient but that's just me.
But what possible reason would there be to program the droids to experience fear? It's not just C-3PO either. Those canon fodder droids Sidious uses in the prequels also showed fear, hell they even use sarcasm too.
__________________ Chicken Boo, what's the matter with you? You don't act like the other chickens do. You wear a disguise to look like human guys, but you're not a man you're a Chicken Boo.
It might not mean that they deserve the same rights, but it does mean that they're slaves.
Which... they are. Droids are basically slaves who have no capacity to disobey.
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It really doesn't, though. Honestly droids aren't alive so they can't be sentient. They also can't really be slaves, as opposed to tool. They just imitate life, and usually nowhere near as accurately because they are constantly memory wiped.
But what about droids like R2-D2? You don't think he has feelings for Luke or Leia? Or that he had feelings for Anakin?
The way BB-8 reacts when he is told that Poe was supposedly killed when the Tie sunk in the sand imo suggests droids may have the ability to develop feelings.
Droids are absolutely thinking, feeling beings and their essential slavery is one of the most ****ed up things in Star Wars. Because even the Jedi don't give a shit about it.
Droids are constantly memory wiped because otherwise they actually develop personalities and it becomes more inconvenient to continue enslaving them.
Because I can't be taken from body to body, reprogrammed at the drop of a hat, and I wasn't built. Life came first. Droids simulate it, and not even consistently. Instead of getting butthurt over imaginary robots, of all things, try the thousands upon thousands of actual living slaves in Star Wars. At least that's understandable.
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Nobody used a trigger warning for mentions of slavery!!!
Words like butthurt are being thrown around that offend rape victims and emotionally weak people!!!
Dehumanization is being thrown around as well despite historical precedent of it being used to oppress people!!!!
I can't take it!!!
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