wickedrobots

Virgie and I watched the Original Series Star Trek episode "Changeling" on Tuesday. Afterward I made some comment about the robot being evil, because it exterminated the inhabitants of en entire star system (unfathomable catastrophes like this are the setup for many Original Series episodes.) Virgie pointed out that it was illogical to blame a robot for its actions, since they are merely the inexorable results of its programming, no matter how complicated that programming may be. I was unable to find a rebuttal to this but I continued to hate the fictional robot. Somebody has to be blamed for such a thing.