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Through Robbie and QT-1, Isaac Asimov spins the human lesson utopian tale of a society that would live under only three laws: harm no one, do our jobs, and preserve ourselves for the protection of all. If we did so, the world would be a better place. Bibliography lists 1 source. jvIRobot.rtf
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Asimov shows in his tale of creators and creations, humans are flawed and they would never be able to follow the laws faithfully to reach the ultimate goal of the
laws - self-preservation. Mackenzie, the Scotsman is the first to state overtly that humans are fallible and corruptible (263), and therefore, we
would never be able to create something, even a machine, that is not fallible. This is the point of Asimovs reporters interview of Susan Calvin, the robots creator, but she
does not agree with Asimovs judgment. She contends to the end, all malfunctioning robots to the contrary, that robots not only meet their function, but exceed the expectations of their
human counterparts by standing between man and his annihilation (272). Whether the robots symbolize man, man symbolizes the robots, or whether Susan
Calvin symbolizes the human-saving robots she created, is irrelevant in the light of the fact that humans do not ultimately survive, but the species does.
As QT-1, Prophet of the Master, points out to Powell and Donovan, "The material you are made of is soft and flabby, lacking endurance and strength. .
. . ." (Asimov 62). From this statement, the fact is laid bare that humans are weak and incapable of meeting the three laws of robotics.
Humans would rather rebel against the laws they created. Humans disobey the first law by constantly coming to harm, harming others, and putting themselves in the
path of harm. By doing so, they fail the second law, which states that they must do their function (by following orders), only unless by meeting the terms of the
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