Chapter 680 Humanity's Moral Standpoint

"Artificial man..."

Squinting his eyes, looking at the artificial human soaked in the nutrient solution, Fangzheng reached out his hand to touch his chin, and remained silent.

"Mr. Fangzheng?"

At this moment, a voice sounded, and then Fiore appeared from the other side in a wheelchair. Seeing Fangzheng, she couldn't help being stunned.

"What are you doing here?"

"Hmm...I'm thinking about some moral issues."

"...the moral aspect...is it?"

Facing Fangzheng's answer, Fiore was obviously a little surprised. It's no wonder, after all, magicians in Xingyue World seldom talk about morality. Pursuing the root is their ideal, and everything else is meaningless to them.

"Yes, I'm thinking about the difference between artificial humans and robots."

That's right, Fangzheng came here just to think about this problem. Regarding robots and AI, Founder already has his own ideas and judgments. But artificial humans are different. To be honest, Fangzheng has watched many movies about human cloning and artificial humans, but... there is no reasonable explanation for why human beings create artificial humans and human clones.

If organs are needed, then only the organs need to be cloned. Science and technology have also shown that cloning a person obviously takes longer, is less efficient, and consumes more resources than cloning an organ.

But if artificial humans are used as the labor force, they are also inferior to machines in terms of efficiency. Even if they are used as soldiers for consumption, they are not as safe as the AI ​​control and low-level permissions of robots. The Clone Wars after all...well, everyone understands that.

But what Fangzheng didn't expect was that Fiore showed a puzzled expression upon hearing his answer.

"Machine...human? What's that?"

"..."

Hearing Fiore's doubtful inquiry, Fang Zheng was speechless for a while. Of course, he knew that many magicians were not good at or didn't like modern technology. After all, the mechanical idiot Rin Tosaka in the fifth battle was impressive to Fang Zheng. up. However... Miss, you don't even know what a robot is?

Anyway, Tohsaka Rin also knows that the mobile phone can be used to make calls!

"It is a humanoid tool made by machinery, which can be manipulated by humans to perform a certain degree of work. It does not need to eat, drink or rest. It can work 24 hours a day, um... just like the self-discipline doll The presence"

Fangzheng briefly introduced it to Fiore, and upon hearing this, Fiore's eyes widened in surprise.

"Have humans outside been able to create this alchemy device?"

"No, it's still a concept... Well, there are some results, but it's not made into a human form."

While talking, Fang Zheng explained to Fiore what an industrial robot is, and hearing Fang Zheng's explanation, Fiore showed a somewhat emotional expression.

"So that's the case...but...what does it have to do with the question you're thinking about?"

"Well, I'm thinking about whether or not to treat androids as human beings from a moral point of view."

This is also the question that Fangzheng is currently considering. Robots must not be regarded as human beings. Just as Fangzheng thought before, the thinking circuit and sensory feedback of the robot are all carried out through programs made up by humans. Thinking that robots have souls and lives is just an illusion brought about by human emotions.

But artificial humans and clones are another matter. Their flesh and blood are indeed created by humans, but their way of thinking is not. However, why did artificial humans appear? Is it their end that they are doing human body batteries here?

To be honest, Fang Zheng couldn't comment on whether this point was humane or not. Because the thousand world tree did not swallow the flesh and blood of other people at the same time to obtain magic power like Ryunosuke and CASTER in the Fourth War. It also didn't use the life force of the residents in the city to maintain the magic power like C's mother in the fifth war.

On the contrary, in order not to involve ordinary people to the greatest extent, they chose the method of "manufacturing their own artificial man as a magic battery". From a purely human point of view, this is already quite humane.

Morality has never been a fixed concept, nothing is "good" or "bad". What matters is who you stand in and think for whom. To use an analogy, the two big countries have been fighting all year round, causing heavy casualties. Every year, countless parents lose their children, and countless children lose their parents. And finally one day, the two great powers decided to use another way to decide the outcome. They created two artificial human armies to fight on the battlefield instead of their citizens. Those artificial people can kill each other on the battlefield, and rely on the number of deaths to determine the outcome of the two countries.

The citizens of these two countries have since lived a peaceful and beautiful life. Parents can take their children out for games, and children can have a happy family with their parents. They can even watch the TV broadcast and cheer for the battle of the artificial human army.

As a third party, seeing this scene will definitely feel funny and evil.

But what about the people of the two countries living in it? Of course, it is easy to say a simple sentence "as long as the war is stopped", but what if the war cannot be stopped?

Is it to send artificial humans to die? Or let their children or parents go to the battlefield and never return?

Just like this Holy Grail War, for an outsider, just a simple sentence "Don't betray the Magic Association" or "It's fine to hold the Holy Grail War silently, why do you want to say it?", or "Magic It’s okay for the association to let Thousand Boundary Tree go out independently, it’s just a group of second-rate magicians anyway.” Talking like this is fine.

But what about the positions of the parties involved?

Can outsiders imagine the anger of ordinary magicians who have been excluded from the core circle of magic for hundreds of years just because of their background and history, and can only exist as their "spare tires" and "slaves"?

Can outsiders understand the anger of a nobleman who has been aloof for two thousand years, and a slave who has been oppressed by him suddenly rises up to resist a slap in the face?

This is impossible.

That's why there is this holy grail war, one side tries to use the holy grail to completely set off the smoke of rebellion. The other party tried to completely curb the signs of rebellion for their own dignity, and at the same time take away the rumored Great Holy Grail.

And for this war, the two "countries" are using their own methods to make the best of all of this.

The so-called morality is like this, and it will change according to different positions. As a paladin, Fang Zheng naturally has his own views on the requirements of morality and position.

Of course, if Fangzheng is just a person, then he only needs to help himself see what is pleasing to the eye, and he doesn't need to take care of the others. But Fangzheng is the leader of Tiandao Palace, and his every move will be related to the safety of Tiandao Palace, so Fangzheng must ensure that his position is always in a balanced and relatively correct position.

"Miss Fiore, what will happen to these artificial humans?"

"this………"

Hearing Fang Zheng's question, Fiore thought for a while.

"After the Holy Grail War is over, if they are still alive, they will continue to live as servants of the Thousand World Tree family..."

"Crack!"

While Fiore was speaking, suddenly, a glass container beside her burst, followed by shards of glass, and an artificial man fell out of the container and smashed towards Fiore.

"Be careful."

Seeing this scene, Fangzheng hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Fiore's wheelchair, pulling her behind him. At the same time, he stretched out his hand and slapped the artificial human, only to hear a "boom" , the next moment, the man-made man was directly sent flying by Fang Zheng, and hit a corner of the wall heavily, tilting his head and making no sound.

what's going on? Are there fake and inferior products for magic props?

Fangzheng looked at the broken container, then turned his head to look at Fiore.

"Miss Fiore, are you okay?"

"I'm fine, thank you, Mr. Fangzheng... On the contrary, you...are not injured."

Hearing Fangzheng's question, Fiore replied in a low voice with a reddish complexion. When the glass vessel exploded just now, if Fangzheng hadn't been in front of her, those glass shards would have hit Fiore. up.

"I'm fine."

Fangzheng stretched out his hand to shake the clothes, and swept the shards of glass on the ground. At this moment, he heard the sound, and other artificial humans also came from all around, and they began to quickly clean up the shards here. And Fang Zheng walked to the wall and looked at the man-made man.

He looks like a young boy with short white hair and a thin body, but unfortunately, this artificial man was very unlucky. When Fang Zheng knocked him into the air, this guy's head seemed to hit The wall, and then the entire cervical spine was broken... Of course, he was dead.

Fangzheng can only say one thing about this...

"It's really unlucky..."