Flibbert blogs about the possi­bility of people in the future marrying robots. I had some thoughts on the topic that were far too long to post in his comments. Here they are. I agree that only things with rights can enter contracts. Marriage, being a constel­lation of legal rela­tion­ships akin to a contract, is only properly available to things with rights. One could not marry one’s toaster. One’s toaster is not a condi­tional, voli­tional consciousness. Its existence is not an end in itself, it does not require sustained action to gain and achieve values in order to continue to exist, it is not required to [ . . . ]

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