They also overlook the fact that a certified robot can't be summarily scrapped or memwiped, since that would be murder.

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>The simple fact of the matter is that, in all but a few exceptional
>cases, robots like to do what they were built to do. Even the
>most sophisticated robots - especially the most sophisticated
>robots - are engineered to enjoy doing their jobs. If they
>weren't, they wouldn't do a good job. Besides, the downside of
>emancipation is that you have to earn a living, and patchouli oil is a
>lousy substitute for Grade C67 lube oil. The hippie lifestyle doesn't
>keep the cockroach in Twinkies, as it were.

And there are few things sadder than a robot that cannot fulfill its design purpose. I recently read Saturn's Children by Charles Stross which is about a sexbot 200 years after the extinction of humanity. It opens with her preparing to commit suicide.

Polychrome