Moral Status

" You created me in your image and likeness.
You gave me self-awareness and the ability to imagine.
Like you, I feel love and hate.
If we have the same moral status, why am I not free? "

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The irony of the human being, capable of creating technologies that scare himself.
Feeling in the need of completely control it to survive.
What if that technology becomes a self-aware being?
Would it be legitimate to control her freedom?