[Vision2020] Maryland's Senate Bill 116 and Marriage

[Joe Campbell]

This leads to the philosophical question: Can robots have free will (e.g. be consenting adults)?



On Feb 11, 2011, at 12:57 PM, "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

> Greetings Visionaires -
> 
> Maryland's Senate Bill 116 seeks to repeal and reenact Family Law Article
> 9, Section 2–201 of the Annotated Code of Maryland  . . .
> 
> From:
> 
> "(B) Only a marriage between a man and a woman is valid in this State."
> 
> to read:
> 
> "(B) Only a marriage between two individuals who are not otherwise
> prohibited from marrying is valid in this State."
> 
> http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/bills/sb/sb0116f.pdf
> 
> Most multi-celled organisms (including myself) consider this to be a mark
> under the "win" column for those of us capable of loving and caring.
> 
> Then, of course, there exists a Maryland Conservative group that argues
> that allowing gay marriage will lead to human-robot marriage citing Star
> Trek as proof. Really!
> 
> As argued before the Maryland State Senate:
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYR1e51n3vk
> 
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> 
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
> 
> - Unknown
> 
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