Thread:KNN005/@comment-25266931-20170304160915/@comment-14138255-20170329165630

This is reminding me of Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Measure of a Man" episode, which probably is the best case for synthetic beings in fiction. Penny is more sentient than Data ever will be, but they didn't have their Patrick Stewart speech there, so Penny could still be considered merely a "highly-sophisticated machine" to the upper rungs of Atlas and possibly society at large. And if they manufactured more Penny's just like her, they'd end up unknowningly creating an entire race of sentient beings to be used purely as mass-produced huntsmen.