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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