{"id":1455,"date":"2010-03-26T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/03\/robot-rights-and-responsibilities\/"},"modified":"2010-03-26T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T12:57:00","slug":"robot-rights-and-responsibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/03\/robot-rights-and-responsibilities.html","title":{"rendered":"Robot Rights and Responsibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>It is interesting that, on a day that my Religion and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/rdbook\/1913\/better_hasidism_through_zen_buddhism_%28and_sufism%2C_and_science_fiction...%29\/?page=entire\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sci-Fi<\/a> class was talking about robot rights, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venganza.org\/2010\/03\/26\/usc-pastafarian-counter-protest\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster<\/a> posted photos from a protest demanding equal rights for gay robots:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/venganza.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/22b.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/venganza.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/22b.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>With rights come responsibilities, and so here is a link to a blog post from 2007, about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkartificial.org\/aesthetics\/the-first-human-killed-by-a-robot\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the first person killed by a robot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-653134761709416035?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is interesting that, on a day that my Religion and Sci-Fi class was talking about robot rights, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster posted photos from a protest demanding equal rights for gay robots: With rights come responsibilities, and so here is a link to a blog post from 2007, about the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Robot Rights and Responsibilities<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It is interesting that, on a day that my Religion and Sci-Fi class was talking about robot rights, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster posted\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/03\/robot-rights-and-responsibilities.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Robot Rights and Responsibilities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It is interesting that, on a day that my Religion and Sci-Fi class was talking about robot rights, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster posted\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/03\/robot-rights-and-responsibilities.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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