when Steven Spielberg tried to get us to entertain the notion that computers and robots are sentient moral beings he did not show us one that looked like this .

当史蒂芬斯皮尔伯格,想让我们认为,电脑和机器人是有感情有道德的,他没有让我们看到这个。

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Since they are sentient, free creatures, they should have a right to do whatever they want unless there is a compelling argument against it and a compelling argument would have to involve some infringement of the freedom of other people.

因为他们都是有知觉的自由个体，他们有权做他们想做的事,除非有非常强烈的理由反对他们这么做,而这种强烈的理由是指,这种行为会侵害另一个人的自由。

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If we have a debate about abortion in this class, people--some people might say, "Look. The fetus is a sentient being and as such it has a right to survive and shouldn't be killed by its mother."

如果我们在课常上以堕胎展开辩论，有些人可能会说，“胎儿是有知觉的生命体,所以它有生存的权利,它的母亲不应该扼杀它”

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