Man wants to marry laptop

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This has nothing to do with being in love with his porn filled laptop. He is trying to demonstrate\ the "slippery slope" that anti_gay marriage people believe will exist as a result of gay marriages.

Why is it that these people think a gay relationship is centered around sex? Is that the way straight couples view their spouses? As sex objects? Why is it so incomprehensible that people of the same sex can have a relationship filled with love and affection?

And how ridiculous is the argument made by Mr. Sevier that because he has "fallen in love" with his laptop, that his laptop is capable of engaging in either a sexual, or an emotional relationship with him? Is anyone really stupid enough to connect the dots of that thought process?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati ... p/8761997/

Marrying computer systems will have to be addressed someday when computers are advanced robots.

Should humans be able to marry their robots ?



Depicted: Lars and the "Real Girl"

Last edited by LoveNotHate on 08 May 2014, 10:05 pm, edited 1 time in total.

It's a stupid argument made by a man who has a reputation for making stupid arguments. Honestly, it's best left ignored.

Yes.

Marriage is a two-way contract. You cannot marry someone or something which can't marry you back – i.e., is not a fully sentient being capable of making rational decisions. That rules out children, animals, plants, and inanimate objects such as the Eiffel Tower, a '68 Firebird, or a laptop, at least until the last achieves sentience.

That standard alone rules out many heterosexual people.

I say let him be married to it, if that's what makes him happy. Who cares.

Reading of the will might be more interesting though.

Which one is the robot?

Hmmm. I wonder if robots will be allowed to marry other robots?

It's a stupid argument, but I would still be willing to address it.

In both circumstances (same-sex marriage and marriage to intimate objects) there is absolutely no more harm being done than opposite-sex marriages.

See, people don't like the idea of marriage to objects because they feel it makes their own marriage less special, pure, and important. I say: BRING IT ON.

Marriage is not about sex. Its about property rights, and inheritance.

Laptops don't own property that can be passed on to heirs. And if your laptop survived you and became your widow/widower it has no use for your property.

Any laptop out there who disagrees with me is free to sue me!

He is not trying to marry his laptop. He is trying to use it to attack same sex marriage, infering that it will lead to the stupidity of marrying anything and everything, including bestiality. Nutcase he is.

Prolly got the idea from the movie "Her" about a guy who falls in love with his computer.

Pretty much this. There is no slippery slope argument when it comes to marriage, the only thing that parallels gay marriage is polygamy and in all honesty there is no reason for that to be illegal either was long as it involves consenting adults. Government shouldn't be involved with marriage at all.

The proper response to this is to ignore it. It's an attention-grab and nothing more.

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How can a laptop have the wisdom or knowledge to give consent? A laptop only does what it is programmed to do. If you really want to go down to the low level I believe a transistor allows an electrical current to pass or not pass. This is represented by 1 and 0 respectively. A laptop functions based upon what man sets up as the electrical circuit configuration.

Two fully mature adult homosexuals are able to give consent.

With respect to marrying laptops, children and animals, none of them can give consent. There is no slippery slope as you said because the line in the sand is consent which is correct.

until the singularity happens, the ins and outs of human-machine relationships poses no moral quandry.