NationStates Jolt Archive

Hello everyone. I'd greatly appreciate it if you would consider voting for my UN Robot Peace Force proposal. I think it would be a huge step in the right direction for the world. Thanks.

We will support this proposal only in the event that the Psychotropics Scientific community be given a primary contract for the various propulsion technologies that will be involved. Also, we would like to make the rounds used by the machines... since Depleted Uranium is such a no no, how about Mercury filled Plutonium rounds ?

The Terran Assemblage does not believe in handing police force status to a bunch of intelligent walking tin cans, which at any moments notice may decide to have a glitch.

You can not help control peaceful solutions to the worlds problems through the use of more military grade hardware. Any piece of machinery may be rewired or reprogrammed to serve the own needs of the nations you give those things to.

The idea of intelligent walking war machines sickens me beyond belief. These things are cold, calculating, and unable to feel emotions. We should not hand over unilaterally our own power to govern our own nations through our own militaries or police force.

I consider these robots, or cyborgs, or whatever you wish to call them, an invading foreign force further created to delute our own powers by allowing a foreign army into our borders.

The Terran Assemblage does not believe in handing police force status to a bunch of intelligent walking tin cans, which at any moments notice may decide to have a glitch.

You can not help control peaceful solutions to the worlds problems through the use of more military grade hardware. Any piece of machinery may be rewired or reprogrammed to serve the own needs of the nations you give those things to.

The idea of intelligent walking war machines sickens me beyond belief. These things are cold, calculating, and unable to feel emotions. We should not hand over unilaterally our own power to govern our own nations through our own militaries or police force.

I consider these robots, or cyborgs, or whatever you wish to call them, an invading foreign force further created to delute our own powers by allowing a foreign army into our borders.

I second the above statement.

The only benefit I can see from such a proposal would be the reduction of attrition in human fighting resources. This is a laudable goal, but by the same token, can be used against other nations that do not have the military capacity to front such an undertaking.

What about our boys and girls?!
The mandatory three years of military service temper them into the future of our glorious nation. You cannot honestly propose to replace humans with machines in wars.

And regarding the cold, calculating and inable to feel emotion benefit: That's what you have special forces for.

Guys, these aren't mom and dad's machines. These are INTELLIGENT cyborgs. They have emotion chips and react just as would a highly-trained human. Taking away the human casualties would be a big step in fixing the problem that is war. These robots are efficient, and they don't have mothers who will weep should they meet an early doom.

So, what your proposing is that the only casualties will be the cyborgs themselves. That any nation which goes to war with another, that their soldiers will not die at all.

That if one nation goes to war with another nation it will be one nations cyborgs fighting the other nations cyborgs?

There will be casualties. If a nation goes to war with another nation, then the cyborgs will be drawn into the conflict. If one nation was not allowed to go to war with another nation whose going to stop them? The cyborgs? Which means they will have to kill the human contingent of the armed forces of the nation in question.

There will be casualties. I'd say our learned colleague has been watching The Day the Earth Stood Still and the robot Gort for to long. As much as i'm a fan of science fiction, I ask these proceedings stick to more on fact than science fiction.

What happens if certain nations outlaw cyborgs or artificial intelligences then? Are they to be forced to take on these monstrosities in the name of the greater good? What of the religious communities and nations run by the church who do not believe in half men/machine abominations? Are their rights and laws to be set aside?

No. The United Nations does not have the right to empower a foreign army or police force into another nation no matter the provication. Human problems deserve human solutions. We will not have inhuman mechanisms running our society or telling us what we can or can not do. I vote no.

Robots may be good for war because then they won't "feel bad" for killing someone; but peacekeeping is a job about compassion and resolving conflicts between humans so they stay alive, so shouldn't humans handle those problems?

RomeW does not support this proposal.

Enn cannot agree to such a proposal. We believe that war should never occur.