Quote from: mobodick on November 08, 2012, 04:02:06 PM

If you would let that choice to the people you would get a dysfunctional society because noone wants to do what needs to be done.

Yup. No kid I've ever asked "what do you want to be when you grow up?" has ever replied "I wanna be a janitor!" (Here, though, is where robots could potentially help... these menial and dirty or dangerous jobs could easily be handled by mechanical workers, and you yourself said that decision-making capability does not require consciousness.)

Quote from: kjj on November 08, 2012, 04:09:46 PM

Quote from: myrkul on November 08, 2012, 03:35:05 PM

Quote from: kjj on November 08, 2012, 03:20:26 PM

They still thought it was the best option...

And about 70-odd years later, Gustave de Molinari came up with a better one.

Meh. Untested conjecture.

*ahem*... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Commonwealth