What Is Wall-E Ethical

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Essay 1 Wall-E is a movie produced by Pixar depicting Earth being unhabitable by humans and the use of robots to clean, filter, and find life, in the form of something that can photosynthesize, so humans can once again return to the planet. Robot Ethics is quite the opposite in terms of the targeted audience, which is definitely not children, to explain what it would take to make a robot harmless or completely natural in a societal setting. Wall-E implies that robots can learn compassion and formulate their own thoughts/override their programmed system given their individual situation. Although, in Robot Ethics, Lin, Abney, and Bekey state that not one individual robot can differentiate good from bad because robots are either meant to be a “landmine” or a caregiver. This can lead to the assumption that either Wall-E is just a fictional movie for children or it sends the message that the technology we have now is not advanced enough to create such a robot and it will be in the far future before we do …show more content…

The main character Wa1l-E has an outrageous fascination with the Hello Dolly musical and seeks companionship with a significant other as portrayed through his Ipod. Eve (E-Vah) is sent to detect plant life on what is left on the landfill, which is Earth. Wall-E craves Eve’s attention, even though she almost kills him at least three times before recognizing that he is absolutely no harm to anything. Throughout the movie, they are faced with many trials that only grows their bond as a team/companions. In the end, after they complete their quest to overthrow the “bad” robot and return to Earth, Eve is only wishing to fix the remnants of Wall-E. Since this is a children’s movie, there was indeed a happy ending and a complete role reversal for Eve who went from almost annihilating to completely rebuilding/saving

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