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RE: Already Here
I did not mean to imply raping or molesting the robots, simulating the rape or molestation of a human.
Actually the whole thing was sort of a tongue-in-cheek poke at the whole idea of robot rights. That sort of thing is hard to imagine today, but maybe someday the concept will be appropriate.
Seriously though, I doubt whether a person with these tendencies would even get whatever satisfaction they required from a robot, if they knew it was a robot. If the robot was extremely life-like as in Blade Runner, then maybe they might, but if they are that realistic, maybe they do need rights. (I think this movie also touched on that topic in its strange way.)
But if I understand you correctly, what you are talking about is having the robots be so accepting that the violent or overly sexual tendencies toward others are more or less nurtured away. I guess the question still has to be; how are these people identified soon enough to begin this subtle mechanical psychotherapy? Or would the benefit have to be based on the chance they just find these (carefully placed?) robots in their subconscious search for an endlessly accepting person?
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RE: Already Here
I did not mean to imply raping or molesting the robots, simulating the rape or molestation of a human. I meant that people who ordinarily might turn out that way might find a more conducive, non-judgmental outlet that would maybe prevent them from going down that road. I'm not sure if that's what you meant, or if you were in line with my "not tonight, I have a headache" joke about robots with free will. If that's the case, tons of Star Trek: TNG episodes with Data, the movie Bicentennial Man and I, Robot kind of probe those issues. Particularly the episode of TNG where the crew gets a disease that lowers inhibitions and Data gets it on with Tasha Yar. Bicentennial Man also has the robot and a human fall in love and they get it on, all while the robot has pending court cases to declare him human.
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