journal # 10

Does Data deserve rights? Yeah, I think that in the situation presented in the Star Trek episode he does deserve rights. He is, as far as I know, the only robot that is a member of the crew and he seems to show that he is a contributing member so i believe that he should be given rights. however, in a future where there are hundreds of Data robots around I think that his rights go out the window and he should be treated more like a tool, even if he is a friend of the other members of the crew. How can you give him rights? If you wanted to do something that he didn't agree with you could simply turn him of and proceed as normal. So in that case why does he even need rights, they should have turned off his power and let that other scientist take him apart and data would have never known the difference.