2. Turkle’s concern exists in the question of whether or not these relationships with robots are actually good for humans in a moral sense. These beliefs are a natural cause of great change—when something new is invented, …show more content…
Dennett adopted an Anglo-American point of view in that a being needs to have motivational purpose and cognitive belief to be a moral agent. I do not believe that based on these criteria, that the robot in Germany should be held responsible for the death of the worker. Firstly, the worker was not handling the robot in the safest way he could. As far as I know from reading the article, the robot could not have the capacity to feel like it needed to take revenge on the worker or feel like it needed to defend itself. Just because robots are designed to complete human tasks, does not mean we can assume that they feel human emotions or motivations. A determination cannot be made because the article did not specify whether or not the robot was capable of self-awareness in this